Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard: Recent changes and estimates of calving fluxes

• Main Authors: Błaszczyk, Małgorzata, Jania, Jacek, Hagen, Jon Ove
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; tidewater glaciers; calving flux; ASTER; Dy; Hagen; glacier; Iceberg*; Kvitøya; Polar Research; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/14633

The purpose of this study is to describe the current state of tidewater glaciers in Svalbard as an extension of the inventory of Hagen et al. (1993). The ice masses of Svalbard cover an area of ca 36 600 km2 and more than 60% of the glaciated areas are glaciers which terminate in the sea at calving...