Response of Eyjafjallajökull, Torfajökull and Tindfjallajökull ice caps in Iceland to regional warming, deduced by remote sensing

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Gudmundsson, Sverrir, Björnsson, Helgi, Magnússon, Eyjólfur, Berthier, Etienne, Pálsson, Finnur, Gudmundsson, Magnús Tumi, Högnadóttir, Thórdís, Dall, Jørgen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2011
• Subjects: Remote sensing; glacier mass balance; regional warming; Eyjafjallajökull; Torfajökull; Tindfjallajökull; glacier; Iceland; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3036; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.7282

We assess the volume change and mass balance of three ice caps in southern Iceland for two periods, 1979/1984 to 1998 and 1998 to 2004, by comparing digital elevation models (DEMs). The ice caps are Eyjafjallajökull (ca. 81 km²), Tindfjallajökull (ca. 15 km²) and Torfajökull (ca. 14 km²). The DEMs w...