Climate change is rapidly deteriorating the climatic signal in Svalbard glaciers

• Main Authors: Spolaor, Andrea, Scoto, Federico, Larose, Catherine, Barbaro, Elena, Burgay, Francois, Bjorkman, Mats P., Cappelletti, David, Dallo, Federico, Blasi, Fabrizio, Divine, Dmitry, Dreossi, Giuliano, Gabrieli, Jacopo, Isaksson, Elisabeth, Kohler, Jack, Martma, Tonu, Schmidt, Louise S., Schuler, Thomas V., Stenni, Barbara, Turetta, Clara, Luks, Bartłomiej, Casado, Mathieu, Gallet, Jean-Charles
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Holtedahlfonna; Climate change; glacier; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-96; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2023-96/

The Svalbard archipelago is particularly sensitive to climate change due to the relatively low altitude of its main ice fields and its geographical location in the higher North Atlantic, where the effect of the Arctic Amplification is more significant. The largest temperature increases have been obs...