Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016

M Zemp, M Huss, E Thibert, N Eckert, R McNabb… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover an area of approximately
706,000 square kilometres globally, with an estimated total volume of 170,000 cubic …

Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age

E Lee, JL Carrivick, DJ Quincey, SJ Cook… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Himalayan glaciers are undergoing rapid mass loss but rates of contemporary change lack
long-term (centennial-scale) context. Here, we reconstruct the extent and surfaces of 14,798 …

Characteristics of recessional moraines at a temperate glacier in SE Iceland: Insights into patterns, rates and drivers of glacier retreat

BMP Chandler, DJA Evans, DH Roberts - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Icelandic glaciers are sensitive to climate variability on short-term timescales owing to their
North Atlantic maritime setting, and have been undergoing ice-marginal retreat since the mid …

Groundwater in catchments headed by temperate glaciers: A review

A Vincent, S Violette, G Aðalgeirsdóttir - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Catchments headed by temperate glaciers are severely impacted by climate change, and
extensively studied from glaciological and surface hydrology perspectives. However …

Glacier changes in Iceland from∼ 1890 to 2019

G Aðalgeirsdóttir, E Magnússon, F Pálsson… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The volume of glaciers in Iceland (∼ 3,400 km 3 in 2019) corresponds to about 9 mm of
potential global sea level rise. In this study, observations from 98.7% of glacier covered …

Implications of climate change on nature-based tourism demand: A segmentation analysis of glacier site visitors in southeast Iceland

J Welling, Þ Árnason, R Ólafsdóttir - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the end of the 20th century, glaciers are shrinking at an accelerated pace worldwide.
This fuels the concern that increased glacier recession will lead to changes in the …

Surface elevation change and mass balance of Icelandic ice caps derived from swath mode CryoSat‐2 altimetry

L Foresta, N Gourmelen, F Pálsson… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We apply swath processing to CryoSat‐2 interferometric mode data acquired over the
Icelandic ice caps to generate maps of rates of surface elevation change at 0.5 km postings …

Paraglacial exposure and collapse of glacial sediment: The 2013 landslide onto Svínafellsjökull, southeast Iceland

D Ben‐Yehoshua, Þ Sæmundsson… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the last 130 years, Icelandic glaciers have experienced significant mass loss, and
numerous paraglacial slope failures have been documented in the country. One such failure …

[HTML][HTML] The glacial landsystem of Fjallsjökull, Iceland: Spatial and temporal evolution of process-form regimes at an active temperate glacier

BMP Chandler, DJA Evans, SJP Chandler… - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
This study assesses the spatial and temporal evolution of the glacial landsystem signature at
Fjallsjökull, southeast Iceland, using (a) mapping of the glacial geomorphology and surficial …

Geodetic mass balance record with rigorous uncertainty estimates deduced from aerial photographs and lidar data–Case study from Drangajökull ice cap, NW Iceland

E Magnússon, J Muñoz-Cobo Belart, F Pálsson… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
In this paper we describe how recent high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) can be
used to extract glacier surface DEMs from old aerial photographs and to evaluate the …