How have the Glaciers & Ice Fields of South Georgia Island Changed in Recent Decades?

• Main Author: Webster, Rob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2020
• Subjects: South Georgia, geodetic mass balance, glacier, climate change, ice field, SRTM, TanDEM-X, SAR, Interferometry; Southern Ocean; South Georgia Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/903; https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/37622

South Georgia, in the midst of the Southern Ocean, is a mountainous island approximately 170 km long and up to 35 km in breadth. It is largely covered in ice-fields and glaciers that are responding to climatic changes. This study extends the work of Cook et al. 2010 and Gordon et al. 2008 by investi...