Local surface mass-balance reconstruction from a tephra layer – a case study on the northern slope of Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Mayer, Christoph, Jaenicke, Julia, Lambrecht, Astrid, Braun, Ludwig, Völksen, Christof, Minet, Christian, Münzer, Ulrich
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
• Subjects: SAR-Signalverarbeitung; Mýrdalsjökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/107440/; https://elib.dlr.de/107440/1/local-surface-mass-balance-reconstruction-from-a-tephra-layer-a-case-study-on-the-northern-slope-of-myrdalsjokull-iceland.pdf; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology

Most Icelandic glaciers show high-accumulation rates during winter and strong surface melting during summer. Although it is difficult to establish and maintain mass-balance programs on these glaciers, mass-balance series do exist for several of the ice caps (Björnsson and others, 2013). We make use...