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 Schanke, Dunse, Thorben, Collier, E., Schuler, Thomas, Berntsen, Terje Koren, Kohler, Jack, Luks, Bartlomiej
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Snow and Ice Data Center 2016
• Subjects: Austfonna; Hansbreen; Svalbard; glacier; Ice cap; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/54663; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-57774; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1089-2016

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...