Half a Century of Measurements of Glaciers on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Cogley, J.G., Adams, W.P., Ecclestone, M.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2011
• Subjects: glacier mass balance; glacier changes; Axel Heiberg Island; bilan massique du glacier; changements entourant le glacier; île Axel Heiberg; Canada; Expedition Fiord; Heiberg; Nunavut; Thompson Glacier; White Glacier; Arctic; glacier*; Île Axel Heiberg
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67174

We illustrate the value of longevity in high-latitude glaciological measurement series with results from a programme of research in the Expedition Fiord area of western Axel Heiberg Island that began in 1959. Diverse investi­gations in the decades that followed have focused on subjects such as glaci...