Climatic Mass Balance and Meltwater Routing of Glacierized area of Kongsfjord basin, northwest Svalbard

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Pramanik, Ankit
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Svalbard; Kongsfjord; Kronebreen; Kings Bay; Arctic; glacier; Journal of Glaciology; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Polar Research; Tidewater; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/66402; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-69619

Kongsfjorden, in the Spitsbergen, is 26 km long and surrounded with glaciers with different dynamic behavior. Mass balance of the entire glacierized area of Kongsfjord basin is +0.23 m w.e. a-1 over the period 1980-2016 with significant spatial variability among the south, east and north region of t...