Application of a two-step approach for mapping ice thickness to various glacier types on Svalbard

• Main Authors: Fürst, JJ, Gillet-Chaulet, F, Benham, TJ, Dowdeswell, JA, Grabiec, M, Navarro, F, Pettersson, R, Moholdt, G, Nuth, C, Sass, B, Aas, K, Fettweis, X, Lang, C, Seehaus, T, Braun, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Svalbard; Vestfonna; glacier; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267464; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13420

The basal topography is largely unknown beneath most glaciers and ice caps, and many attempts have been made to estimate a thickness field from other more accessible information at the surface. Here, we present a two-step reconstruction approach for ice thickness that solves mass conservation over s...