Determining seasonal flow of Hubbard Glacier: A comparison of RADARSAT Constellation Mission with Sentinel-1, TerraSAR-X and RADARSAT-2 derived velocities ...

<!--!introduction!--> Hubbard Glacier is an advancing tidewater glacier in Alaska, with large seasonal variations in flow speeds of 1500 to 5200 m a -1 . The large size and fast speeds of Hubbard Glacier caused it to have possibly the largest rates of steady-state discharge of all glaciers out...

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Main Authors: Bayer, Courtney, Van Wychen, Wesley, Wendleder, Anna
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2023
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2312
https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018430
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Summary:<!--!introduction!--> Hubbard Glacier is an advancing tidewater glacier in Alaska, with large seasonal variations in flow speeds of 1500 to 5200 m a -1 . The large size and fast speeds of Hubbard Glacier caused it to have possibly the largest rates of steady-state discharge of all glaciers outside of Greenland and Antarctica. Previous studies found the fastest flow on Hubbard Glacier to occur between May and June and the slowest flow between September to November. However, we observed a different seasonal pattern when looking at velocities at a higher temporal resolution than used before (image pairs of SAR and optical imagery with a separation in the range of ~4-30 days). In some years, the seasonal flow pattern of Hubbard Glacier changes to having higher velocities in the winter than what is seen in the spring/summer maximums. Here, we show that with the utilization of RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) data, which has a higher temporal resolution than has previously been used to quantify glacier ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ...