Bathymetry in Petermann fjord from Operation IceBridge aerogravity

• Main Authors: Tinto, Kirsteen J., Bell, Robin E., Cochran, James R., Munchow, Andreas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2015
• Subjects: Geophysics; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Marine geophysics; Glaciers > Measurement; Fjords; Bathymetric maps; Greenland; Petermann Fjord; glacier; Petermann glacier
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293

Petermann Glacier is a major glacier in northern Greenland, maintaining one of the few remaining floating ice tongues in Greenland. Monitoring programs, such as NASA’s Operation IceBridge have surveyed Petermann Glacier over several decades and have found it to be stable in terms of mass balance, ve...