A 2000-year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving activity, based on marine sediment cores

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Wangner, David J., Jennings, Anne E., Vermassen, Flor, Dyke, Laurence M., Hogan, Kelly A., Schmidt, Sabine, Kjær, Kurt H., Knudsen, Mads F., Andresen, Camilla S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Disko Bugt; foraminifera; Greenland; Holocene; ice-rafted debris; Jakobshavn Isbræ; palaeoclimatology; West Greenland Current; Isfjord; Jakobshavn Isfjord; Disko bugt; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/d4bcb873-9e82-4e42-84ce-f33762313655; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618788701

The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced significant mass loss in recent years. A substantial component of this is attributable to the retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers, which lose mass through increases in calving, submarine melting and terrestrial meltwater discharge. In terms of iceber...