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Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Caps
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Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Caps

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2019) | Viewed by 7672

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Lars Stenseng

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Department of Planning, Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vaenge 15, DK-2450, Copenhagen SV, Denmark
Interests: climate monitoring; climate change; Arctic ocean; sea-ice; altimetry; sea surface height; inland water; coastal altimetry; gravity field; SAR altimetry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The state of glaciers and ice caps around the world are indicators of the climate and are therefore key parameters in the forecast of future climate and sea level. With the satellite era came the opportunity to monitor the glaciers on a regular basis and thereby derive more reliable time series. The many diverse remote sensing observations have led to studies and development of methods to determine the structure, state, variability, and change rates. Today several satellite and airborne missions, like ICESat, CryoSat-2, Operation Ice Bridge, and CryoVEx, have been primarily dedicated to the monitoring of the major ice caps and glaciers.

For this special issue I would like to invite the research community to contribute with articles within the area of space-, air- and land-based remote sensing of glaciers and ice caps. Topics could be, but not limited to:

  • Glacier front retreat/advance
  • Volume/mass change of ice caps and glaciers
  • Glacier/ice cap outlines
  • Surface velocity
  • Bedrock topography
  • Snow depth
  • Albedo

Assoc. Prof. Lars Stenseng
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Remote Sensing
  • Glacier
  • Ice Cap
  • Climate Change
  • SAR
  • Altimetry

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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Glacier Surface Velocities and Outlet Areas on James Ross Island, Northern Antarctic Peninsula
by Stefan Lippl, Peter Friedl, Christoph Kittel, Sebastián Marinsek, Thorsten C. Seehaus and Matthias H. Braun
Geosciences 2019, 9(9), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090374 - 28 Aug 2019
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The northern Antarctic Peninsula was affected by a significant warming over the second half of the 20th century and the collapse of several ice shelves. Local climate conditions on James Ross Island on the northeastern coast can differ strongly from the main part [...] Read more.
The northern Antarctic Peninsula was affected by a significant warming over the second half of the 20th century and the collapse of several ice shelves. Local climate conditions on James Ross Island on the northeastern coast can differ strongly from the main part of the Antarctic Peninsula. This paper reports the spatial and temporal variability of glacier surface velocities and the area of their outlets throughout James Ross Island, and evaluates potential relationships with atmospheric and oceanic conditions. Velocity estimates were retrieved from intensity feature tracking of scenes from satellite synthetic aperture radar sensors TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X between 2014 and 2018, which were validated against ground observations. Calving front positions back to 1945 were used to calculate outlet area changes for the glaciers by using a common-box approach. The annual recession rates of almost all investigated glacier calving fronts decelerated for the time periods 2009–2014 and 2014–2018 in comparison to the period 1988–2009, but their velocity patterns differed. Analysis of atmospheric conditions failed to explain the different patterns in velocity and area changes. We suggest a strong influence from local bathymetric conditions. Future investigations of the oceanic conditions would be necessary for a profound understanding of the super-position of different influencing factors. Full article
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Morphogenesis of New Straits and Islands Originated in the European Arctic Since the 1980s
by Wieslaw Ziaja and Krzysztof Ostafin
Geosciences 2019, 9(11), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9110476 - 12 Nov 2019
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Several new islands and many islets have appeared in the European Arctic since the end of the 20th century due to glacial recession under climate warming. The specificity of the formation of each individual strait and island is shown in the paper (apart [...] Read more.
Several new islands and many islets have appeared in the European Arctic since the end of the 20th century due to glacial recession under climate warming. The specificity of the formation of each individual strait and island is shown in the paper (apart from its location and timing of its origin). Analysis of available maps and satellite images of all three European Arctic archipelagos, from different times since 1909–1910, was the main research method. There are three pathways of the morphogenesis of the new islands: (1) simultaneous recession of glaciers from both sides of a depression in bedrock being a potential strait (typical in Franz Josef Land), (2) uncovering a rocky hill (which protrudes from a depression in bedrock) from under a receding glacier, (3) recession of one glacier which had reached a rocky fragment of a coastline (e.g., headland or peninsula), being a potential new island, during a maximum extent of this glacier during the Little Ice Age (in the beginning of the 20th century). Additional straits and islands are currently at the stage of formation and will continue to form in the European Arctic in the case of further warming or stabilization of the current climate conditions. Full article
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