Ice‐Dynamical Glacier Evolution Modeling—A Review

H Zekollari, M Huss, D Farinotti… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciers play a crucial role in the Earth System: they are important water suppliers to lower‐
lying areas during hot and dry periods, and they are major contributors to the observed …

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 …

The empirical basis for modelling glacial erosion rates

SJ Cook, DA Swift, MP Kirkbride, PG Knight… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glaciers are highly effective agents of erosion that have profoundly shaped Earth's surface,
but there is uncertainty about how glacial erosion should be parameterised in landscape …

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 …

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 …

Contemporary glacigenic inputs to the dust cycle

JE Bullard - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of glacigenic dust in the Earth's system during glacial periods is widely
acknowledged. Under contemporary conditions, the world's largest dust sources are in low …

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 …

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 …

Following the ice: Adaptation processes of glacier tour operators in Southeast Iceland

J Welling, B Abegg - International Journal of Biometeorology, 2021 - Springer
The growing recognition that global climatic change is a pressing reality and that its impacts
on humans and ecological systems are inevitable makes adaptation a core topic in climate …

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 …