Glacier Calving in Greenland

• Published in: Current Climate Change Reports
• Main Authors: Benn, Douglas I., Cowton, Tom, Todd, Joe, Luckman, Adrian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Glaciology and Climate Change (T Payne; Section Editor); Greenland; Payne; glacier; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959369/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-017-0070-1

In combination, the breakaway of icebergs (calving) and submarine melting at marine-terminating glaciers account for between one third and one half of the mass annually discharged from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the ocean. These ice losses are increasing due to glacier acceleration and retreat, la...