Mass balance, ice volume, and flow velocity of the Vestre Grønfjordbreen (Svalbard) from 2013/14 to 2019/20

• Published in: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Main Authors: Anton V. Terekhov, Sergei Verkulich, Alexander Borisik, Vasiliy Demidov, Uliana Prokhorova, Kseniia Romashova, Mikhail Anisimov, Olga Sidorova, Gleb Tarasov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022
• Subjects: Arctic glacier; glacier mass balance; ground-penetrating radar; snow survey; polythermal glacier; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Arctic; Barentsburg; Svalbard; Antarctic and Alpine Research; glacier; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2022.2150122; https://doaj.org/article/f51002429ae945a3bb97d5e38f1cf7bc

ABSTRACTThe first seven years (2013/14–2019/20) of annual and seasonal mass-balance monitoring on the glacier Vestre Grønfjordbreen (16.4 km2), located south of the town of Barentsburg on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, are presented. This part of the archipelago is one of the least glaciated on Svalbard and...