The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland
We present changes of the ice margin in Northwest Greenland at the Eastern part of the Nunatarssuaq Ice Cap (NIC) over six decades. The ice margin in this area terminates as a near-vertical ice cliff of between 9 and 33 m thickness. During the years 1954–1957 and in 1965 multi-disciplinary studies w...
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ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/432300 2023-11-05T03:39:46+01:00 The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland Abermann, Jakob Steiner, J.F. Prinz, Rainer Wecht, Matthias Lisager, Peter Hydrologie Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology 2020-08 application/pdf https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/432300 en eng 0022-1430 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/432300 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Arctic glaciology glacier fluctuations glacier mass balance Article 2020 ftunivutrecht 2023-10-11T22:12:02Z We present changes of the ice margin in Northwest Greenland at the Eastern part of the Nunatarssuaq Ice Cap (NIC) over six decades. The ice margin in this area terminates as a near-vertical ice cliff of between 9 and 33 m thickness. During the years 1954–1957 and in 1965 multi-disciplinary studies were performed. We digitise and orthorectify material, that is often difficult to access, in order to use the historical data as an absolute starting point of our change assessment. We compare the cliff morphology of the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s with various time-steps between 1985 and 2017. The studied ice margin remained remarkably constant with very subtle changes of changing sign: rather slow advance rates are reported from the 1950s and 1960s that accelerated until 1985 and were followed by a general retreat until 2012 and a subsequent advance until 2017. Thickness changes are negative throughout the entire time-period, however, different rates of thinning are shown and there is a positive relationship with air temperature anomalies. Compared to similar elevations on the adjacent Greenland ice sheet, we find significantly weaker thinning rates at the NIC. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic glacier Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet Utrecht University Repository |
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Arctic glaciology glacier fluctuations glacier mass balance Abermann, Jakob Steiner, J.F. Prinz, Rainer Wecht, Matthias Lisager, Peter The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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We present changes of the ice margin in Northwest Greenland at the Eastern part of the Nunatarssuaq Ice Cap (NIC) over six decades. The ice margin in this area terminates as a near-vertical ice cliff of between 9 and 33 m thickness. During the years 1954–1957 and in 1965 multi-disciplinary studies were performed. We digitise and orthorectify material, that is often difficult to access, in order to use the historical data as an absolute starting point of our change assessment. We compare the cliff morphology of the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s with various time-steps between 1985 and 2017. The studied ice margin remained remarkably constant with very subtle changes of changing sign: rather slow advance rates are reported from the 1950s and 1960s that accelerated until 1985 and were followed by a general retreat until 2012 and a subsequent advance until 2017. Thickness changes are negative throughout the entire time-period, however, different rates of thinning are shown and there is a positive relationship with air temperature anomalies. Compared to similar elevations on the adjacent Greenland ice sheet, we find significantly weaker thinning rates at the NIC. |
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Hydrologie Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology |
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Abermann, Jakob Steiner, J.F. Prinz, Rainer Wecht, Matthias Lisager, Peter |
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Abermann, Jakob Steiner, J.F. Prinz, Rainer Wecht, Matthias Lisager, Peter |
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The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland |
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red rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the nunatarssuaq area, northwest greenland |
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Arctic glacier Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet |
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Arctic glacier Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet |
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