Seven decades of uninterrupted advance of Good Friday Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Arctic Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: DOROTA MEDRZYCKA, LUKE COPLAND, WESLEY VAN WYCHEN, DAVID BURGESS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
• Subjects: Arctic glaciology; glacier flow; glacier surges; ice dynamics; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Arctic; Canada; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; glacier*; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.21; https://doaj.org/article/78510fee68bf4adebde31cfe13ee7deb

Previous studies reported that Good Friday Glacier had been actively surging in the 1950–60s, 1990s and again in 2000–15. Based on observations of terminus position change from air photos and satellite imagery, we fill the gaps between previous studies and conclude that the glacier has been advancin...