Nature Communications (Oct 2022)
The unquantified mass loss of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers from 2000–2020
- William Kochtitzky,
- Luke Copland,
- Wesley Van Wychen,
- Romain Hugonnet,
- Regine Hock,
- Julian A. Dowdeswell,
- Toby Benham,
- Tazio Strozzi,
- Andrey Glazovsky,
- Ivan Lavrentiev,
- David R. Rounce,
- Romain Millan,
- Alison Cook,
- Abigail Dalton,
- Hester Jiskoot,
- Jade Cooley,
- Jacek Jania,
- Francisco Navarro
Affiliations
- William Kochtitzky
- Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa
- Luke Copland
- Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa
- Wesley Van Wychen
- Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa
- Romain Hugonnet
- LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS
- Regine Hock
- Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo
- Julian A. Dowdeswell
- Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
- Toby Benham
- Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
- Tazio Strozzi
- Gamma Remote Sensing
- Andrey Glazovsky
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Ivan Lavrentiev
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
- David R. Rounce
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- Romain Millan
- Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, CNES
- Alison Cook
- Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa
- Abigail Dalton
- Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa
- Hester Jiskoot
- Department of Geography & Environment, University of Lethbridge
- Jade Cooley
- Department of Geography & Environment, University of Lethbridge
- Jacek Jania
- University of Silesia
- Francisco Navarro
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33231-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
As glaciers terminate into the ocean, mass is lost through frontal ablation where the ice meets the ocean. Here the authors estimate decadal frontal ablation from 2000 to 2020 of 1496 glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, and find that frontal ablation makes up 79% of ice discharge to the ocean.
