Climate Driven Glacial Retreat, Surface Uplift, and the Rheological Structure of Iceland: Insights from cGPS Geodesy

• Main Author: Compton, Kathleen
• Other Authors: Bennett, Richard, Beck, Susan, Pelletier, Jon, Richardson, Randall, Zandt, George
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
• Subjects: GPS; Iceland; Geosciences; Glacial Isostatic Adjustment; Arctic; Vatnajökull; albedo; Hofsjökull; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621566

In Iceland, glaciers cover approximately 11% of the land surface and comprise the country's largest reservoir of freshwater. Increases in summer temperatures since the mid-1980s have led to rapid mass loss from the Icelandic ice caps of 9.5-11.4 Gt/yr, and continuously operating GPS stations na...