Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century
Larocca, L.J.; Twining–Ward, M.; Axford, Y.; Schweinsberg, A.D.; Larsen, S.H.; Westergaard-Nielsen, A.; Luetzenburg, G.; Briner, J.P.; Kjeldsen, K.K.; Björk, A.A. (2023). Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13(12): 1324-1328. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01855-6
In: Nature Climate Change. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1758-678X; e-ISSN 1758-6798, meer
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| Auteurs | | Top |
- Larocca, L.J.
- Twining–Ward, M.
- Axford, Y.
- Schweinsberg, A.D.
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- Larsen, S.H.
- Westergaard-Nielsen, A.
- Luetzenburg, G.
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- Briner, J.P.
- Kjeldsen, K.K.
- Björk, A.A.
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| Abstract |
The long-term response of Greenland’s peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document length fluctuations of >1,000 land-terminating peripheral glaciers in Greenland over more than a century. We find that their rate of retreat over the last two decades is double that of the twentieth century, indicating a ubiquitous transition into a new, accelerated state of downwasting. |
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