Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Jan Kavan, Petra Luláková, Jakub Małecki, Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: climate warming; coastal zone development; glacier retreat; marine-terminating glacier; Svalbard; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Nordenskiöldbreen; glacier; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.92; https://doaj.org/article/0a8a5fb5376b4137920c28a0937f0539

Svalbard has experienced a dramatic increase in air temperature and glacier retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. In many cases, this retreat has resulted in glaciers transitioning from being marine-terminating to land-terminating. Nordenskiöldbreen is an excellent contemporary example of thi...