[HTML][HTML] Holocene glacial history of Svalbard: Status, perspectives and challenges

WR Farnsworth, L Allaart, Ó Ingólfsson… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We synthesize the current understanding of glacier activity on Svalbard from the end of the
Late Pleistocene (12,000 yrs. before present) to the end of the Little Ice Age (c. 1920 AD) …

Holocene precipitation seasonality in northern Svalbard: Influence of sea ice and regional ocean surface conditions

SE Kjellman, A Schomacker, EK Thomas… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Arctic precipitation is predicted to increase in the coming century, due to a combination of
enhanced northward atmospheric moisture transport and local surface evaporation from ice …

Spatial patterns of Holocene temperature changes over mid-latitude Eurasia

J Jiang, B Meng, H Wang, H Liu, M Song, Y He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Holocene temperature conundrum, the discrepancy between proxy-based Holocene
global cooling and simulated global annual warming trends, remains controversial …

Post-Little Ice Age glacial lake evolution in Svalbard: inventory of lake changes and lake types

I Wieczorek, MC Strzelecki, Ł Stachnik, JC Yde… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The rapid formation of glacial lakes is one of the most conspicuous landscape changes
caused by atmospheric warming in glacierised regions. However, relatively little is known …

[HTML][HTML] Glacial history of the Åsgardfonna Ice Cap, NE Spitsbergen, since the last glaciation

L Allaart, A Schomacker, NK Larsen, E Nørmark… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The response of glaciers and ice caps to past climate change provides important insight into
how they will react to ongoing and future global warming. In Svalbard, the Holocene glacial …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of Holocene ice cap in northeast Svalbard aided by glacio-isostatic rebound

WR Farnsworth, Ó Ingólfsson, S Brynjólfsson… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The deglaciation of the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet was driven by relative sea-level
rise, the incursion of North Atlantic waters around Spitsbergen, and increasing summer …

Lake dynamics modulate the air temperature variability recorded by sedimentary aquatic biomarkers: A Holocene case study from western Greenland

AA Cluett, EK Thomas, NP McKay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative temperature reconstructions from lacustrine organic geochemical proxies
including branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) and alkenones provide …

Holocene ice-free strait followed by dynamic Neoglacial fluctuations: Hornsund, Svalbard

A Osika, J Jania, JE Szafraniec - The Holocene, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The recession of the Hornbreen-Hambergbreen glaciers (Hornsund, Svalbard) will lead to
the formation of a strait between the Greenland and Barents Seas within a few decades. We …

Seasonal precipitation variability on Svalbard inferred from Holocene sedimentary leaf wax δ2H

SE Kjellman, EK Thomas, WR Farnsworth… - Boreas, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Svalbard spans large climate gradients, associated with atmospheric circulation patterns
and variations in ocean heat content and sea ice cover. Future precipitation increases are …

Networks of unusually large fossil periglacial polygons, Campine area, northern Belgium

K Beerten, E Meylemans, C Kasse, T Mestdagh… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of polygon networks has been discovered on the most recent LiDAR (Light
Detection and Ranging) DEM (Digital Elevation Model) of Flanders (Belgium) available in a …