Ice island thinning: rates and model calibration with in situ observations from Baffin Bay, Nunavut

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. J. Crawford, D. Mueller, G. Crocker, L. Mingo, L. Desjardins, D. Dumont, M. Babin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Nares; Nunavut; Baffin; glacier; Nares strait; North Atlantic; Petermann glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020; https://doaj.org/article/d6b24e2c1881443097f06329e62a9dba

A 130 km 2 tabular iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland on 5 August 2012. Subsequent fracturing generated many individual large “ice islands”, including Petermann ice island (PII)-A-1-f, which drifted between Nares Strait and the North Atlantic. Thinning caused by basal an...