Ice island thinning:rates and model calibration with in situ observations from Baffin Bay, Nunavut

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Crawford, A. J., Mueller, D., Crocker, G., Mingo, L., Desjardins, L., Dumont, D., Babin, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Greenland; Nares; Nunavut; Baffin; glacier; Nares strait; Petermann glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/ice-island-thinning(d70b7dc9-9380-4426-844b-f5145d7647e9).html; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/19708/1/Crawford_2020_Cryo_Ice_VoR_CCBY.pdf

A 130 km 2 tabular iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier innorthwestern Greenland on 5 August 2012. Subsequent fracturing generated manyindividual large “ice islands”, including Petermann ice island (PII)-A-1-f, which drifted between Nares Strait and the North Atlantic.Thinning caused by basal and s...