Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ...
Kangerlussuaq Glacier, a dominant contributor to mass loss in central-eastern Greenland, has primarily been studied using remote sensing methods, whose mass balance over the last century and specific drivers of change remain poorly understood. We introduce a novel approach that combines numerical mo...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.8268753 2024-03-31T07:52:53+00:00 Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... Eigil Yuichi Hyldgaard Lippert Mathieu Morlighem Gong Cheng Shfaqat Abbas Khan 2024 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8268753 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8268753 en eng Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8268754 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10614499 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10254357 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Numerical Ice Sheet Modelling, Little Ice Age, Model output article-journal JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle 2024 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.826875310.5281/zenodo.826875410.5281/zenodo.1061449910.5281/zenodo.10254357 2024-03-04T11:56:58Z Kangerlussuaq Glacier, a dominant contributor to mass loss in central-eastern Greenland, has primarily been studied using remote sensing methods, whose mass balance over the last century and specific drivers of change remain poorly understood. We introduce a novel approach that combines numerical modeling and a 1933-2021 climate forcing to reconstruct its mass balance over the past century. The model's final state aligns remarkably well with present-day observations. It reveals a total ice mass loss of 285 Gt over the century, equivalent to 0.68 mm global sea level rise, $51\%$ of which occurred since 2003 over the last 20 years alone. Notably, dynamic thinning from ice front retreat is responsible for $88\%$ of mass change since 1933, with seasonal ice front variations having minimal impact on centennial mass loss. Compared to earlier studies, our findings suggest that Kangerlussuaq lost 301 Gt (59\%) less mass over the century than previously thought. ... : This data-set contains the model output from the centennial model presented in the paper. The spatial data is gridded on 500x500 m polar stereographic grid (epsg:3413). The time series are given per model time step. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Kangerlussuaq DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland Kangerlussuaq ENVELOPE(-55.633,-55.633,72.633,72.633) |
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Kangerlussuaq Glacier, a dominant contributor to mass loss in central-eastern Greenland, has primarily been studied using remote sensing methods, whose mass balance over the last century and specific drivers of change remain poorly understood. We introduce a novel approach that combines numerical modeling and a 1933-2021 climate forcing to reconstruct its mass balance over the past century. The model's final state aligns remarkably well with present-day observations. It reveals a total ice mass loss of 285 Gt over the century, equivalent to 0.68 mm global sea level rise, $51\%$ of which occurred since 2003 over the last 20 years alone. Notably, dynamic thinning from ice front retreat is responsible for $88\%$ of mass change since 1933, with seasonal ice front variations having minimal impact on centennial mass loss. Compared to earlier studies, our findings suggest that Kangerlussuaq lost 301 Gt (59\%) less mass over the century than previously thought. ... : This data-set contains the model output from the centennial model presented in the paper. The spatial data is gridded on 500x500 m polar stereographic grid (epsg:3413). The time series are given per model time step. ... |
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Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... |
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Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... |
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Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... |
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Modeling a century of change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... |
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modeling a century of change: kangerlussuaq glacier's mass loss from 1933 to 2021 ... |
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