Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. Strozzi, A. Kääb, T. Schellenberger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Edgeøya; Stonebreen; Svalbard; glacier; The Cryosphere; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/553/2017/tc-11-553-2017.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/be23a2d9c085410e98cceda571b851d3

In consideration of the strong atmospheric warming that has been observed since the 1990s in polar regions there is a need to quantify mass loss of Arctic ice caps and glaciers and their contribution to sea level rise. In polar regions a large part of glacier ablation is through calving of tidewater...