Holocene glacial history of Svalbard: Status, perspectives and challenges

• Published in: Earth-Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Farnsworth, Wesley, Allaart, Lis, Ingolfsson, Olafur, Alexanderson, Helena, Forwick, Matthias, Noormets, Riko, Retelle, Michael, Schomacker, Anders
• Other Authors: Jarðvísindastofnun (HÍ), Institute of Earth Sciences (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2020
• Subjects: Climate; Glaciers; Holocene; Little Ice Age; Neoglacial; Spitsbergen; Loftslag; Jöklar; Nýlífsöld; Svalbarði; Arctic; Jakobsen; Kjellman; Norway; Svalbard; glacier; Iceland; UNIS
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2215; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103249

Publisher's version (útgefin grein) We synthesize the current understanding of glacier activity on Svalbard from the end of the Late Pleistocene (12,000 yrs. before present) to the end of the Little Ice Age (c. 1920 AD). Our glacier history is derived from the SVALHOLA database, the first compi...