Glacier-surge mechanisms promoted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer melt

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Dunse, T., Schellenberger, T., Hagen, J. O., Kääb, A., Schuler, T. V., Reijmer, C. H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Austfonna; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; glacier; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-197-2015; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/197/2015/

Mass loss from glaciers and ice sheets currently accounts for two-thirds of the observed global sea-level rise and has accelerated since the 1990s, coincident with strong atmospheric warming in the polar regions. Here we present continuous GPS measurements and satellite synthetic-aperture-radar-base...