Short-term Glacial Calving Processes at Kronebreen-Kongsvegen, Svalbard

• Main Author: Tinder, Phaedra Calista
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Svalbard; calving rates; glacier mass balance; Kongsvegen; Kronebreen; Reu; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10166/1059

Undergraduate honors thesis -Bryn Mawr College Calving is an important component of glacier mass loss, but it remains difficult to model and directly influences sedimentological processes at the ice margin. As part of the Svalbard REU, this study aims to characterize the short-term calving processes...