Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, NE-Greenland

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Mayer, Christoph, Schaffer, Janin, Hattermann, Tore, Floricioiu, Dana, Krieger, Lukas, Dodd, Paul, Kanzow, Thorsten, Schannwell, Clemens, Licciullo, Carlo
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
• Subjects: SAR-Signalverarbeitung; Greenland; Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/116723/; https://elib.dlr.de/116723/1/Mayer_et_al-2018-Nature_Communications.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05180-x

Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden is a major outlet glacier in Northeast-Greenland. Although earlier studies showed that the floating part near the grounding line thinned by 30% between 1999 and 2014, the temporal ice loss evolution, its relation to external forcing and the implications for the grounded ice she...