The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a coupled atmosphere–glacier mass balance model

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Aas, Kjetil S., Dunse, Thorben, Collier, Emily, Schuler, Thomas V., Berntsen, Terje K., Kohler, Jack, Luks, Bartłomiej
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Austfonna; Hansbreen; Svalbard; glacier; Ice cap; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1089-2016; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00013332; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00013288/tc-10-1089-2016.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/1089/2016/tc-10-1089-2016.pdf

In this study we simulate the climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers with a coupled atmosphere–glacier model with 3 km grid spacing, from September 2003 to September 2013. We find a mean specific net mass balance of −257 mm w.e. yr−1, corresponding to a mean annual mass loss of about 8.7 Gt, wit...