Cold Surface Layer Dynamics of Storglaciären, Northern Sweden 2009-2019

• Main Author: Feng, Shunan
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2019
• Subjects: Storglaciären; cold surface layer; cold-temperate transition surface; polythermal glacier; kallt ytskikt; kall-tempererad is; polyterrmal glaciär; Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Arctic; Kalla; Norra Sverige; Northern Sweden; subarktisk
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385773

Storglaciären is a sub-Arctic polythermal glacier in northern Sweden. Twenty years' monitoring of thecold surface layer found that it has lost one third of its total volume of cold ice with an average thinningrate of 0.80 ± 0.24 m·a-1 for the period of 1989-2009. This thesis presents the contin...