Changes in meltwater chemistry over a 20-year period following a thermal regime switch from polythermal to cold-based glaciation at Austre Brøggerbreen, Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Aga Nowak, Andy Hodson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2014
• Subjects: High Arctic; Bayelva; meltwater geochemistry; chemical weathering in glacierized catchment; glacier retreat; climate change; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Svalbard; Climate change; glacier; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22779; https://doaj.org/article/e1fb3920eafb460280f1a0b9017e754b

Our long-term study gives a rare insight into meltwater hydrochemistry following the transition of Austre Brøggerbreen from polythermal to cold-based glaciation and its continued retreat. We find that the processes responsible for ion acquisition did not change throughout the period of records but b...