Application of a two-step approach for mapping ice thickness to various glacier types on Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Jakob Fürst, Johannes, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Benham, Toby, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Grabiec, Mariusz, Navarro, Francisco, Pettersson, Rickard, Moholdt, Geir, Nuth, Christopher, Sass, Björn, Aas, Kjetil Schanke, Fettweis, Xavier, Lang, Charlotte, Seehaus, Thorsten, Braun, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Snow and Ice Data Center 2018
• Subjects: Svalbard; Vestfonna; glacier; Ice cap; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/62151; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-64746; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2003-2017

The basal topography is largely unknown beneath most glaciers and ice caps, and many attempts have been made to estimate a thickness field from other more accessible information at the surface. Here, we present a two-step reconstruction approach for ice thickness that solves mass conservation over s...