Recent climate warming impact on the firn layers at Lomonosovfonna and Penny Ice Cap

• Main Author: Winander Schönning, Christoffer
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2014
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Lomonosovfonna; Penny Ice Cap; Svalbard; Arctic Archipelago; Ice cap; ice core
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226239

Current climate warming has a disproportionally large impact on Arctic glaciers and ice caps. In this thesis, I examined stratigraphic changes observed in the top ~15 m of two Arctic ice caps: one located at Svalbard (Lomonosovfonna) and the eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Penny). The objective...