Satellite-retrieval and modeling of glacier mass balance

• Main Author: Ruyter de Wildt, Martijn Sybren de
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Natuur- en Sterrenkunde; AVHRR; climate change; equilibrium line; glacier; ice cap; Iceland; mass balance; remote sensing; SAR; Line Glacier; Vatnajökull; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/677

In this research project we use satellite measurements to infer the mean specific mass balance (Bm) of glaciers. Vatnajökull, the largest ice cap in Europe, is being used as a test-case because this ice cap has often been studied. Only one aspect of Vatnajökull has not been investigated so far, and...