Calving glaciers and ice shelves

DI Benn, JA Åström - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Calving, or the release of icebergs from glaciers and floating ice shelves, is an important
process transferring mass into the world's oceans. Calving glaciers and ice sheets make a …

An integrated Structure-from-Motion and time-lapse technique for quantifying ice-margin dynamics

J Mallalieu, JL Carrivick, DJ Quincey, MW Smith… - Journal of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Fine resolution topographic data derived from methods such as Structure from Motion (SfM)
and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) have the potential to provide detailed observations of …

Calving controlled by melt-under-cutting: detailed calving styles revealed through time-lapse observations

P How, KM Schild, DI Benn, R Noormets… - Annals of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present a highly detailed study of calving dynamics at Tunabreen, a tidewater glacier in
Svalbard. A time-lapse camera was trained on the terminus and programmed to capture …

Calving multiplier effect controlled by melt undercut geometry

DA Slater, DI Benn, TR Cowton… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the impact of submarine melting on calving is central to understanding the
response of marine‐terminating glaciers to ocean forcing. Modeling and observational …

Glaciers and climate change

R Hock, M Huss - Climate change, 2021 - Elsevier
Concurrent with atmospheric warming glaciers around the world are rapidly retreating,
thinning, and losing mass. While total volume compared with the ice sheets in Greenland …

Increased presence of Atlantic Water on the shelf south-west of Spitsbergen with implications for the Arctic fjord Hornsund

A Strzelewicz, A Przyborska, W Walczowski - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
Atlantic Water is a major contributor to the largest zonal variability in ocean properties and
air-sea-ice interaction in the Nordic Seas and the European Arctic. Climate change has …

[HTML][HTML] Recent deceleration of the ice elevation change of Ecology Glacier (King George Island, Antarctica)

M Pętlicki, J Sziło, S MacDonell, S Vivero, RJ Bialik - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Glacier change studies in the Antarctic Peninsula region, despite their importance for global
sea level rise, are commonly restricted to the investigation of frontal position changes. Here …

Ice front change of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and southeast Greenland during the 21st century

C Bunce, JR Carr, PW Nienow, N Ross… - Journal of Glaciology, 2018 - cambridge.org
The increasingly negative mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) over the last~ 25
years has been associated with enhanced surface melt and increased ice loss from marine …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal and spatial differences in metal and metalloid concentrations in the snow cover of Hansbreen, Svalbard

K Koziol, A Uszczyk, F Pawlak, M Frankowski… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Metals and metalloids in snow on glaciers, depending on the season of deposition, may
come from various sources: local rock dust (erosion of the geological substratum), marine …

Interannual variability in hydrography and water mass distribution in Hornsund, an Arctic fjord in Svalbard

A Promińska, E Falck, W Walczowski - Polar Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Progressing warming in the Arctic and increased extreme weather events can significantly
influence the hydrography of Svalbard fjords, leading to changes towards more Atlantic-type …