Accelerated Volume Loss in Glacier Ablation Zones of NE Greenland, Little Ice Age to Present

Greenland outlet glacier ice - flow variability

1 I ce mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is a primary contributor to global sea level rise. The rate of ice loss has accelerated over the last couple of decades and Greenland currently contributes about 0.7-1.1 mm/yr to sea-level rise (260-380 Gt/ice per year; Enderlin et al. 2014; Shepherd et al. 2012). Predicting the potential rate and limits of future mass loss requires a clear understa...

Little Ice Age

Volume 1, The Earth system: physical and chemical dimensions of global environmental change, pp 504–509

Ice flux divergence anomalies on 79north Glacier, Greenland

Ice-Dammed Lake Drainage Evolution at Russell Glacier, West Greenland

1 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Geography, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Arctic Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark, 5 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 Ge...

Little Ice Age climate reconstruction from ensemble reanalysis of Alpine glacier fluctuations

Mountain glaciers sample a combination of climate fields – temperature, precipitation and radiation – by accumulation and melting of ice. Flow dynamics acts as a transfer function that maps volume changes to a length response of the glacier terminus. Long histories of terminus positions have been assembled for several glaciers in the Alps. Here I analyze terminus position histories from an ense...