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Unravelling the long-term, locally heterogenous response of Greenland glaciers observed in archival photography

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Unravelling the long-term, locally heterogenous response of Greenland glaciers observed in archival photography
المؤلفون: M. A. Cooper, P. Lewińska, W. A. P. Smith, E. R. Hancock, J. A. Dowdeswell, D. M. Rippin
المصدر: The Cryosphere, Vol 16, Pp 2449-2470 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Copernicus Publications, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Environmental sciences
LCC:Geology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geology, QE1-996.5
الوصف: We present an approach for extracting quantifiable information from archival aerial photographs to extend the temporal record of change over a region of the central eastern Greenland Ice Sheet. The photographs we use were gathered in the 1930s as part of a surveying expedition, and so they were not acquired with photogrammetric analysis in mind. Nevertheless, we are able to make opportunistic use of this imagery, as well as additional, novel datasets, to explore changes at ice margins well before the advent of conventional satellite technology. The insights that a longer record of ice margin change bring is crucial for improving our understanding of how glaciers are responding to the changing climate. In addition, our work focuses on a series of relatively small and little studied outlet glaciers from the eastern margin of the ice sheet. We show that whilst air and sea surface temperatures are important controls on the rates at which these ice masses change, there is also significant heterogeneity in their responses, with non-climatic controls (such as the role of bathymetry in front of calving margins) being extremely important. In general, there is often a tendency to focus either on changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet as a whole, or on regional variations. Here, we suggest that even this approach masks important variability, and full understanding of the behaviour and response of the ice sheet requires us to consider changes that are taking place at the scale of individual glaciers.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1994-0416
1994-0424
Relation: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2449/2022/tc-16-2449-2022.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0416; https://doaj.org/toc/1994-0424
DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-2449-2022
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e6b96645a802431e9a290a52f882ff76
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.6b96645a802431e9a290a52f882ff76
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19940416
19940424
DOI:10.5194/tc-16-2449-2022