Glacial geological studies of surge-type glaciers in Iceland—Research status and future challenges

Ó Ingólfsson, ÍÖ Benediktsson, A Schomacker… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Surging glaciers are potential analogues for land-terminating palaeo-ice streams and
surging ice sheet lobes, and research on surge-type glaciers is important for understanding …

Ice-volume changes, bias estimation of mass-balance measurements and changes in subglacial lakes derived by lidar mapping of the surface of Icelandic glaciers

T Johannesson, H Björnsson, E Magnusson… - Annals of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Icelandic glaciers cover∼ 11 000 km2 in area and store∼ 3600 km3 of ice. Starting in 2008
during the International Polar Year, accurate digital elevation models (DEMs) of the glaciers …

Contribution of Icelandic ice caps to sea level rise: Trends and variability since the Little Ice Age

H Björnsson, F Pálsson… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In total, Icelandic ice caps contain∼ 3600 km3 of ice, which if melted would raise sea level
by∼ 1 cm. Here, we present an overview of mass changes of Icelandic ice masses since 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 …

Area, volume and mass changes of southeast Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland, from the Little Ice Age maximum in the late 19th century to 2010

H Hannesdóttir, H Björnsson, F Pálsson… - The Cryosphere …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
Area and volume changes and the average geodetic mass balance of the non-surging outlet
glaciers of southeast Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland, during different time periods between …

Ice‐volcano interactions during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, as revealed by airborne imaging radar

E Magnússon, MT Gudmundsson… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
During the eruption of the ice‐covered Eyjafjallajökull volcano, a series of images from an
airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) were obtained by the Icelandic Coast Guard …

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 …

The geodetic mass balance of Eyjafjallajökull ice cap for 1945–2014: processing guidelines and relation to climate

JMC BELART, E Magnússon, E Berthier… - Journal of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Mass-balance measurements of Icelandic glaciers are sparse through the 20th century.
However, the large archive of stereo images available allows estimates of glacier-wide mass …

Mass balance of 14 Icelandic glaciers, 1945–2017: spatial variations and links with climate

JMC Belart, E Magnússon, E Berthier… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To date, most mass balance studies in Iceland have concentrated on the three largest ice
caps. This study turns the focus toward smaller Icelandic glaciers, presenting geodetic mass …

Variations of southeast Vatnajökull ice cap (Iceland) 1650–1900 and reconstruction of the glacier surface geometry at the Little Ice Age maximum

H Hannesdóttir, H Björnsson, F Pálsson… - … Annaler: Series A …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We present an overview of glacier variations of the outlet glaciers of southeast atnajökull ice
cap, celand, during the time period∼ 1650–1900 as represented in historical archives, by …