A tipping point in refreezing accelerates mass loss of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps

A tipping point in refreezing accelerates mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps

Melting of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) and its peripheral glaciers and ice caps (GICs) contributes about 43% to contemporary sea level rise. While patterns of GrIS mass loss are well studied, the spatial and temporal evolution of GICs mass loss and the acting processes have remained unclear. Here we use a novel, 1 km surface mass balance product, evaluated against in situ and remote sensing ...

Mass loss of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps 2003–2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data

Microbial diversity on Icelandic glaciers and ice caps

Algae are important primary colonizers of snow and glacial ice, but hitherto little is known about their ecology on Iceland's glaciers and ice caps. Due do the close proximity of active volcanoes delivering large amounts of ash and dust, they are special ecosystems. This study provides the first investigation of the presence and diversity of microbial communities on all major Icelandic glaciers...

Mass budget of the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada, from 1991 to 2015

Recent studies indicate that the glaciers and ice caps in Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI), Canada have experienced an increase in ice mass loss during the last two decades, but the contribution of ice dynamics to this loss is not well known. We present a comprehensive mapping of ice velocity using a suite of satellite data from year 1991 to 2015, combined with ice thickness data from NASA Operati...

GlobGlacier: A NEW ESA PROJECT TO MAP THE WORLD’S GLACIERS AND ICE CAPS FROM SPACE

In this paper we provide an overview of the GlobGlacier project, a new data user element activity within ESA’s Living Planet program. The main aim of the project is to map glaciers from key regions all over the world and to generate digital glacier outlines in large quantities in order to fill data gaps in currently existing databases (GLIMS and World Glacier Inventory, WGI). Further goals are ...