Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Strozzi, Tazio, Kääb, Andreas, Schellenberger, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Edgeøya; Stonebreen; Svalbard; glacier; The Cryosphere; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00010771; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00010728/tc-11-553-2017.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/11/553/2017/tc-11-553-2017.pdf

In consideration of the strong atmospheric warming that has been observed since the 1990s in polar regions there is a need to quantify mass loss of Arctic ice caps and glaciers and their contribution to sea level rise. In polar regions a large part of glacier ablation is through calving of tidewater...