Destabilisation of an Arctic ice cap triggered by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer-melt

• Main Authors: Dunse, Thorben, Schellenberger, Thomas, Hagen, Jon Ove Methlie, Kääb, Andreas, Schuler, Thomas, Reijmer, CH
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Austfonna; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; glacier; Ice cap; Iceberg*; The Cryosphere; The Cryosphere Discussions
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/43693; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-48049; https://doi.org/10.5194/tcd-8-2685-2014

Mass loss from glaciers and ice sheets currently accounts for two-thirds of the observed global sea-level rise and has accelerated since the 1990s, coincident with strong atmospheric warming in the Polar Regions. Here we present continuous GPS measurements and satellite synthetic aperture radar base...