Albedo on a glacial foreland at ground level and landscape scale driven by vegetation-substrate patterns

• Published in: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
• Main Authors: Lawrence Tanner, Genevieve Kikukawa, Kaylyn Weits
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Karolinum Press 2023
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Arctic; Skaftafellsjökull; albedo; Climate change; Iceland; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.14712/23361964.2023.8; https://doaj.org/article/5ab9ac42ff464feabdd1efc3cba64626

Recent anthropogenic climate change has caused both glacial retreat and increased vegetative growth on Arctic and subarctic tundra landscapes resulting in changing albedo and energy budgets. Glacial forelands are topographically and ecologically heterogeneous landscapes comprising ice-contact and ou...