Climatic mass balance of the ice cap Vestfonna, Svalbard: A spatially distributed assessment using ERA-Interim and MODIS data ...

• Main Authors: Möller, Marco, Finkelnburg, Roman, Braun, Matthias, Hock, Regine, Jonsell, Ulf, Pohjola, Veijo A, Scherer, Dieter, Schneider, Christoph
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2011
• Subjects: 914 Geografie Europas und Reisen in Europa; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Vestfonna; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18613; https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19312

The ice cap Vestfonna in the northern Svalbard archipelago is one of the largest ice bodies of the European Arctic (∼2400 km2), but little is known about its mass balance. We model the climatic mass balance of the ice cap for the period September 2000 to August 2009 on a daily basis. Ablation is cal...