Relating ocean temperatures to frontal ablation rates at Svalbard tidewater glaciers: Insights from glacier proximal datasets

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Holmes, Felicity A., Kirchner, Nina, Kuttenkeuler, Jakob, Krützfeldt, Jari, Noormets, Riko
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Barents Sea; Kronebreen; Svalbard; Tunabreen; glacier; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6603002/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31263126; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45077-3

Fjord-terminating glaciers in Svalbard lose mass through submarine melt and calving (collectively: frontal ablation), and surface melt. With the recently observed Atlantification of water masses in the Barents Sea, warmer waters enter these fjords and may reach glacier fronts, where their role in ac...