Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard
Svalbard has experienced a dramatic increase in air temperature and glacier retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. In many cases, this retreat has resulted in glaciers transitioning from being marine-terminating to land-terminating. Nordenskiöldbreen is an excellent contemporary example of thi...
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| author | Jan Kavan Petra Luláková Jakub Małecki Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki |
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| description | Svalbard has experienced a dramatic increase in air temperature and glacier retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. In many cases, this retreat has resulted in glaciers transitioning from being marine-terminating to land-terminating. Nordenskiöldbreen is an excellent contemporary example of this transition. A set of historical observations of glacier front positions was used to assess Nordenskiöldbreen's retreat rate and we found that the southern portion of the glacier front retreated by ~3500 m, since records began in 1896. The general retreat rate corresponds well with the air temperature trend during most of the 20th century. However, the average retreat rate has slowed since the 1990s despite increasing air temperatures. We show that this discrepancy between air temperature and retreat rate marks the transition from marine-terminating towards a land-terminating glacier, as the glacier's bedrock topography started to play an essential role in the glacier margin geometry, ice flow and retreat dynamics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0a8a5fb5376b4137920c28a0937f05392025-01-16T21:46:45ZengCambridge University PressJournal of Glaciology0022-14301727-56522024-01-017010.1017/jog.2023.92Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, SvalbardJan Kavan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-3009Petra Luláková1Jakub Małecki2Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-3565Polar-Geo Lab, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia Alfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech RepublicDepartment of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech RepublicFaculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, PolandAlfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, PolandSvalbard has experienced a dramatic increase in air temperature and glacier retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. In many cases, this retreat has resulted in glaciers transitioning from being marine-terminating to land-terminating. Nordenskiöldbreen is an excellent contemporary example of this transition. A set of historical observations of glacier front positions was used to assess Nordenskiöldbreen's retreat rate and we found that the southern portion of the glacier front retreated by ~3500 m, since records began in 1896. The general retreat rate corresponds well with the air temperature trend during most of the 20th century. However, the average retreat rate has slowed since the 1990s despite increasing air temperatures. We show that this discrepancy between air temperature and retreat rate marks the transition from marine-terminating towards a land-terminating glacier, as the glacier's bedrock topography started to play an essential role in the glacier margin geometry, ice flow and retreat dynamics.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143023000928/type/journal_articleclimate warmingcoastal zone developmentglacier retreatmarine-terminating glacierSvalbard |
| spellingShingle | Jan Kavan Petra Luláková Jakub Małecki Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard Journal of Glaciology climate warming coastal zone development glacier retreat marine-terminating glacier Svalbard |
| title | Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard |
| title_full | Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard |
| title_fullStr | Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard |
| title_short | Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard |
| title_sort | capturing the transition from marine to land terminating glacier from the 126 year retreat history of nordenskioldbreen svalbard |
| topic | climate warming coastal zone development glacier retreat marine-terminating glacier Svalbard |
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