The unquantified mass loss of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers from 2000–2020

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Kochtitzky, William, Copland, Luke, Van Wychen, Wesley, Hugonnet, Romain, Hock, Regine, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Benham, Toby, Strozzi, Tazio, Glazovsky, Andrey, Lavrentiev, Ivan, Rounce, David R., Millan, Romain, Cook, Alison, Dalton, Abigail, Jiskoot, Hester, Cooley, Jade, Jania, Jacek, Navarro, Francisco
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Austfonna; Greenland; Severnaya Zemlya; Svalbard; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553960/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33231-x

In the Northern Hemisphere, ~1500 glaciers, accounting for 28% of glacierized area outside the Greenland Ice Sheet, terminate in the ocean. Glacier mass loss at their ice-ocean interface, known as frontal ablation, has not yet been comprehensively quantified. Here, we estimate decadal frontal ablati...