Climatic mass balance of the ice cap Vestfonna, Svalbard: A spatially distributed assessment using ERA-Interim and MODIS data

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Möller, Marco, Finkelnburg, Roman, Braun, Matthias, Hock, Regine, Jonsell, Ulf, Pohjola, Veijo A, Scherer, Dieter, Schneider, Christoph
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2011
• Subjects: 914 Geografie Europas und Reisen in Europa; ddc:914; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Vestfonna; albedo; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/19312; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/19312-3; https://doi.org/10.18452/18613; https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JF001905

The ice cap Vestfonna in the northern Svalbard archipelago is one of the largest ice bodies of the European Arctic (∼2400 km2), but little is known about its mass balance. We model the climatic mass balance of the ice cap for the period September 2000 to August 2009 on a daily basis. Ablation is cal...