Local surface mass-balance reconstruction from a tephra layer - a case study on the northern slope of Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Mayer, Christoph, Jaenicke, Julia, Lambrecht, Astrid, Braun, Ludwig, Voelksen, Christof, Minet, Christian, Münzer, Ulrich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2017
• Subjects: Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften; ddc:550; Mýrdalsjökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55958/1/Mayer-2016-Local-surface-mass-balance-reconstr.pdf; https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55958/; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-55958-7; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.119

Most Icelandic glaciers show high-accumulation rates during winter and strong surface melting during summer. Although it is difficult to establish and maintain mass-balance programs on these glaciers, mass-balance series do exist for several of the ice caps (Bjornsson and others, 2013). We make use...