Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)
Glaciers in the Russian High Arctic have been subject to extensive atmospheric warming due to global climate change, yet their contribution to sea level rise has been relatively small over the past decades. Here we show surface elevation change measurements and geodetic mass balances of 93 % of all...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:5da1b74c26914c94aa11929261ae0dbe 2023-05-15T14:57:16+02:00 Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017) C. Sommer T. Seehaus A. Glazovsky M. H. Braun 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-35-2022 https://doaj.org/article/5da1b74c26914c94aa11929261ae0dbe EN eng Copernicus Publications https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/35/2022/tc-16-35-2022.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0416 https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0424 doi:10.5194/tc-16-35-2022 1994-0416 1994-0424 https://doaj.org/article/5da1b74c26914c94aa11929261ae0dbe The Cryosphere, Vol 16, Pp 35-42 (2022) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-35-2022 2022-12-31T15:14:09Z Glaciers in the Russian High Arctic have been subject to extensive atmospheric warming due to global climate change, yet their contribution to sea level rise has been relatively small over the past decades. Here we show surface elevation change measurements and geodetic mass balances of 93 % of all glacierized areas of Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land using interferometric synthetic aperture radar measurements taken between 2010 and 2017. We calculate an overall mass loss rate of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><mo>-</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">22</mn><mo>±</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">6</mn></mrow></math> <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="39pt" height="10pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="4b9e18a184893d4f6b000b93b280a068"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="tc-16-35-2022-ie00001.svg" width="39pt" height="10pt" src="tc-16-35-2022-ie00001.png"/></svg:svg> Gt a −1 , corresponding to a sea level rise contribution of 0.06±0.02 mm a −1 . Compared to measurements prior to 2010, mass loss of glaciers on the Russian archipelagos has doubled in recent years. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Franz Josef Land Novaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya The Cryosphere Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Franz Josef Land ENVELOPE(55.000,55.000,81.000,81.000) Severnaya Zemlya ENVELOPE(98.000,98.000,79.500,79.500) The Cryosphere 16 1 35 42 |
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Glaciers in the Russian High Arctic have been subject to extensive atmospheric warming due to global climate change, yet their contribution to sea level rise has been relatively small over the past decades. Here we show surface elevation change measurements and geodetic mass balances of 93 % of all glacierized areas of Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land using interferometric synthetic aperture radar measurements taken between 2010 and 2017. We calculate an overall mass loss rate of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><mo>-</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">22</mn><mo>±</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">6</mn></mrow></math> <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="39pt" height="10pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="4b9e18a184893d4f6b000b93b280a068"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="tc-16-35-2022-ie00001.svg" width="39pt" height="10pt" src="tc-16-35-2022-ie00001.png"/></svg:svg> Gt a −1 , corresponding to a sea level rise contribution of 0.06±0.02 mm a −1 . Compared to measurements prior to 2010, mass loss of glaciers on the Russian archipelagos has doubled in recent years. |
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