A Regional Analysis of Changing Climate Conditions and Glacier Mass Balance in Svalbard

• Main Author: Bergman, Ottar
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2019
• Subjects: glacier mass balance; model data; climate change; Svalbard; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Arctic; Main Island; Nordaustlandet; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; glacier; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-383930

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has experienced among the greatest increases in temperature on Earth in the last few decades. The changing climatic conditions have a large impact on the glacier mass balance. This study makes use of a highresolution model dataset with data on climatic and glacier...