Recent changes in glacier mass balance and equilibrium line altitude and the impact of climatic change on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Falk, Ulrike, López, Damián, Silva-Busso, Adrian A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: IMCOAST/IMCONet; Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems; Antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Potter Cove; Fourcade; Fourcade Glacier; Antarc*; Ice cap; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.874599; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874599

The South Shetland Islands are located at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). This region was subject to extreme warming trends in the atmospheric surface layer. Surface air temperature increased about 3K in 50 years, concurrent with retreating glacier fronts, an increase in melt areas...