Jan Mayen glacier changes between 2000-2020 in historic, climatic, oceanic, and geographic context

• Main Authors: Cooley, Jade Linna, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
• Other Authors: Jiskoot, Hester
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Geography and Environment 2021
• Subjects: physical geography; geophysics; glacier fluctuations; glacier retreat; Jan Mayen glaciers; positive degree days; frontal ablation; glacier front variations; Glaciers > Jan Mayen Island; Glaciers > Research > Jan Mayen Island; Glaciers > Jan Mayen Island > Remote sensing; Glaciers > Jan Mayen Island > Measurement; Jan Mayen Island; Climatic changes > Jan Mayen Island; Arial photography in glaciology; Remote sensing > Jan Mayen Island; Climatic changes > Research > Jan Mayen Island; Dissertations; Academic; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; glacier; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10133/6148

Jan Mayen is a small, remote, glacierized volcanic island in the North Atlantic between Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland, and Scandinavia. Its most recent glacier map (RGI) is based on airphotos from 1949-1975, and only the glacier Sørbreen has previously been studied in detail. This thesis presents the...