Glacier-surge mechanisms promoted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer melt

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. Dunse, T. Schellenberger, J. O. Hagen, A. Kääb, T. V. Schuler, C. H. Reijmer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: geo; envir; Austfonna; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; glacier; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-197-2015; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/197/2015/tc-9-197-2015.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/b9db90db649046478e06504d81296b8e

Mass loss from glaciers and ice sheets currently accounts for two-thirds of the observed global sea-level rise and has accelerated since the 1990s, coincident with strong atmospheric warming in the polar regions. Here we present continuous GPS measurements and satellite synthetic-aperture-radar-base...