Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017
Research article
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16 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2017

Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard

Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Kääb, and Thomas Schellenberger

Data sets

Glacier\_CCI ESA https://glaciers-cci.enveo.at/crdp2/index.html

FP7 SEN3APP ESA http://sen3app.fmi.fi

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Short summary
The strong atmospheric warming observed since the 1990s in polar regions requires quantifying the contribution to sea level rise of glaciers and ice caps, but for large areas we do not have much information on ice dynamic fluctuations. The recent increase in satellite data opens up new possibilities to monitor ice flow. We observed over Stonebreen on Edgeøya (Svalbard) a strong increase since 2012 in ice surface velocity along with a decrease in volume and an advance in frontal extension.