Glacier-Ocean Interactions in the Arctic : Contemporary calving and frontal melt from field observations, remote sensing, and numerical modelling

• Main Author: Holmes, Felicity Alice
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi 2022
• Subjects: Glacier-ocean interactions; Arctic; Calving; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinär geovetenskap; Climate Research; Klimatforskning; Greenland; Kronebreen; Ryder; Ryder Glacier; Svalbard; Tunabreen; glacier; Iceberg*; Petermann glacier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-211742

Globally, glaciers are losing mass as a result of the changing climate, with this mass loss having a considerable societal impact through rising sea levels. Glaciers which terminate in the oceans are particularly vulnerable to changing external conditions as a result of high sensitivity at their mar...