Accelerating retreat and high-elevation thinning of glaciers in central Spitsbergen

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Author: Małecki, Jakub
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Dickson Land; Svalbard; glacier; The Cryosphere; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1317-2016; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00043540; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00043160/tc-10-1317-2016.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/1317/2016/tc-10-1317-2016.pdf

Svalbard is a heavily glacier-covered archipelago in the Arctic. Dickson Land (DL), in the central part of the largest island, Spitsbergen, is relatively arid and, as a result, glaciers there are relatively small and restricted mostly to valleys and cirques. This study presents a comprehensive analy...