Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast-Greenland

  • Christoph Mayer,
  • Janin Schaffer,
  • Tore Hattermann,
  • Dana Floricioiu,
  • Lukas Krieger,
  • Paul A. Dodd,
  • Torsten Kanzow,
  • Carlo Licciulli,
  • Clemens Schannwell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05180-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The Greenland Ice Sheet has increasingly lost mass over the past few decades, yet the contribution from glaciers in Northeast Greenland is difficult to quantify. Here, the authors show that the floating part of 79 North Glacier has continuously lost mass since at least 2001, with a very high annual variability.