Melting Characteristics of Snow Cover on Tidewater Glaciers in Hornsund Fjord, Svalbard

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Laska, Michał, Barzycka, Barbara, Luks, Bartłomiej
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; climate change; freshwater; Landsat 8; Snow-Covered Area; supervised classification; Svalbard; Hornsund; Hansbreen; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/8714; https://doi.org/10.3390/w9100804

In recent years, the Svalbard area, especially its southern section, has been characterised by an exceptionally thin snow cover, which has a significant impact of the annual mass balance of glaciers. The objective of this study was to determine melting processes of the snow cover deposited on 11 gla...