Fifty years of tidewater glacier surface elevation and retreat dynamics along the south-east coast of Spitsbergen (Svalbard Archipelago)

J Kavan, GD Tallentire, M Demidionov, J Dudek… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tidewater glaciers on the east coast of Svalbard were examined for surface elevation
changes and retreat rate. An archival digital elevation model (DEM) from 1970 (generated …

Impact of parent material, vegetation cover, and site wetness on variability of soil properties in proglacial areas of small glaciers along the northeastern coast of …

W Szymański, W Maciejowski, K Ostafin, W Ziaja… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate warming that began after the Little Ice Age (LIA) and glacier recession due to this
warming are responsible for exposure of new areas, which previously had been covered …

Quantifying Changes in Extent and Velocity of the Hornbreen/Hambergbreen Glacial System (SW, Spitsbergen) Based on Timeseries of Multispectral Satellite Imagery

D Saferna, M Błaszczyk, M Grabiec, B Gądek - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on the Hornsund region in Svalbard, where the temperature has risen by
1.14° C per decade, six times faster than the global average. The accelerating temperature …

Seeking the sources of dust: geochemical and magnetic studies on “Cryodust” in glacial cores from Southern spitsbergen (Svalbard, Norway)

M Lewandowski, MA Kusiak, T Werner, A Nawrot… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Natural mineral particulate matter deposited from aerosols and trapped in glaciers—herein
defined as “cryodust”—may be an excellent indicator of atmospheric circulation, if terrestrial …

From glaciated landscape to unglaciated seascape: Transformation of the Hambergbreen–Hambergbukta Area, SE Spitsbergen, 1900–2017

A Cygankiewicz-Truś, W Ziaja - Annals of the American …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In 1900 the present Hambergbukta fjord did not exist and its basin was filled with the huge
Hambergbreen glacier. The glacier then experienced progressive recession during a period …

[PDF][PDF] Warm winter and cold summer spells in Spitsbergen and their circulation conditions

AM Tomczyk, EB Łupikasza… - Polish Polar …, 2019 - bibliotekanauki.pl
The objective of the study was to determine multi-annual changes and variability of
occurrence of cold spells in summer and warm spells in winter on Spitsbergen in the period …

[PDF][PDF] A contribution to the knowledge of bryophytes in polar areas subjected to rapid deglaciation: a case study from southeastern Spitsbergen

A Stebel, R Ochyra, NA Konstantinova… - Acta Societatis …, 2018 - bibliotekanauki.pl
The paper provides a list of 54 species of bryophytes (48 mosses and six liverworts)
collected from Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Arctic Svalbard archipelago (Norwegian …

[PDF][PDF] Diversity and distribution of lichens in recently deglaciated areas of southeastern Spitsbergen

W Maciejowski, P Osyczka, J Smykla… - Acta Societatis …, 2018 - bibliotekanauki.pl
The diversity and distribution of lichen species were investigated in recently deglaciated
areas of the borderland between Sørkapp Land and Torell Land (southeastern Spitsbergen …