An analysis of changing meteorology and its relation to glacier mass balance on Svalbard between 1957 - 2018

• Main Author: Harrison, Edward John
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Climate change; Svalbard; Glaciers; Meteorology; Arctic; Kongsvegen; Hansbreen; Etonbreen; glacier; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/69998; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-73197

Svalbard is an archipelago of islands covering an area of around 61000 km2 north of the Arctic Circle. The region is heavily glaciated, with more than 2100 glaciers covering around 59% of its total area. In a process known as ‘Arctic Amplification’, the Arctic is warming faster than any other area o...