Climatic warming: a trigger for glacial iceberg surges (‘Heinrich events’) in the North Atlantic?

• Published in: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin
• Main Authors: Kuijpers, Antoon, Heinrich, Hartmut, Moros, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Newfoundland; The Antarctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Antarc*; Climate change; East Greenland; glacier; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4838; https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v7.4838

In the present-day western North Atlantic, icebergs can be observed off north-east Canada, drifting south along the coast in the cold Labrador Current. Normally they melt in the area off Newfoundland where they reach warmer waters. Most of these icebergs originate from calving glaciers in West Green...