Recent changes in glacier mass balance and equilibrium line altitude and the impact of climatic change on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula, supplement to: Falk, Ulrike; López, Damián; Silva-Busso, Adrian A (2018): Multi-year analysis of distributed glacier mass balance modelling and equilibrium line altitude on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1211-1232

• Main Authors: Falk, Ulrike, López, Damián, Silva-Busso, Adrian A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2017
• Subjects: Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems, Antarctica IMCOAST/IMCONet; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Potter Cove; Ela; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.874599; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.874599

The South Shetland Islands are located at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). This region was subject to extreme warming trends in the atmospheric surface layer. Surface air temperature increased about 3K in 50 years, concurrent with retreating glacier fronts, an increase in melt areas...