Blomstrandbreen terminus, plume and lake outlines and MAR data ...

• Main Author: Tallentire, Guy
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Loughborough University 2023
• Subjects: Glaciology; Geomorphology and earth surface processes; Sedimentology; Oceanography not elsewhere classified; Arctic; Blomstrandbreen; Svalbard; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.24648909; https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Blomstrandbreen_terminus_plume_and_lake_outlines_and_MAR_data/24648909

Data to support findings presented in Tallentire et al., 2023. Observing relationships between sediment-laden meltwater plumes, glacial runoff and a retreating terminus at Blomstrandbreen, Svalbard. International Journal of Remote Sensing , 44 (13), pp.3972-3992 and G. D. Tallentire's Doctoral Thesis.Article abstractSediment-laden meltwater plumes are a common occurrence at the margins of marine-terminating glaciers in Svalbard and are useful proxies for inferring the glacial hydrological system and meltwater runoff. Plumes can influence calving rates, marine biogeochemistry and fjord circulation. However, little is known about how their dynamics will evolve in a warmer, wetter Arctic with increasing melt rates and retreating glacier margins. To determine the temporal magnitude and frequency evolution of sediment-laden meltwater plumes, we manually delineated plume outlines in every available Sentinel-2 image at Blomstrandbreen, Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, between 2016 and 2021. While the frequency of plumes ...