The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

The unquantified mass loss of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers from 2000–2020

W Kochtitzky, L Copland, W Van Wychen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In the Northern Hemisphere,~ 1500 glaciers, accounting for 28% of glacierized area
outside the Greenland Ice Sheet, terminate in the ocean. Glacier mass loss at their ice …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data

PW Leclercq, A Kääb, B Altena - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
For studying the flow of glaciers and their response to climate change it is important to detect
glacier surges. Here, we compute within Google Earth Engine the normalized differences …

Glacier surface speed variations on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 2014–2019

R Yang, R Hock, S Kang, W Guo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To characterize the spatiotemporal variations of glacier surface speed on the Kenai
Peninsula, Alaska (∼ 3,900 km2), we derived 92 surface speed fields between October …

Glaciers and nutrients in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago marine system

MP Bhatia, S Waterman, DO Burgess… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) is vulnerable to climate warming, and with
over 300 tidewater glaciers, is a hotspot for enhanced glacial retreat and meltwater runoff to …

Propagating speedups during quiescence escalate to the 2020–2021 surge of Sít'Kusá, southeast Alaska

J Liu, EM Enderlin, TC Bartholomaus, Y Terleth… - Journal of …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We use satellite image processing techniques to measure surface elevation and velocity
changes on a temperate surging glacier, Sít'Kusá, throughout its entire 2013–2021 surge …

Dynamics throughout a complete surge of Iceberg Glacier on western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic

B Lauzon, L Copland, W Van Wychen… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study provides the first comprehensive reconstruction of the dynamics of Iceberg
Glacier, located on western Axel Heiberg Island, and reveals detailed observations of a …

[HTML][HTML] Grounding-line retreat of Milne Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canada over 1966–2023 from satellite, airborne, and ground radar data

YK Antropova, D Mueller, SV Samsonov… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Milne Glacier is a marine-terminating glacier located on the northern coast of Ellesmere
Island in the Canadian High Arctic, a region that has experienced extensive ice-mass loss …

Anomalous surface elevation, velocity, and area changes of Split Lake Glacier, western Prince of Wales Icefield, Canadian High Arctic

W Van Wychen, DAM Hallé, L Copland, L Gray - Arctic Science, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Here we use a variety of remote sensing data sets to characterize the evolving extent,
surface features, dynamics, and surface elevations of Split Lake Glacier, a small outlet of the …

Meighen Ice Cap: changes in geometry, mass, and climatic response since 1959

DO Burgess, BD Danielson - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Remote sensing (satellite and airborne) and in situ monitoring measurements indicate that
the Meighen Ice Cap has thinned by 10±3 m between 1960 and 2016, resulting in areal …