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Marine-terminating outlet glaciers experience a combination of seasonal and climate-driven change. Nearby glaciers exhibit very different retreat and advance behavior despite being situated in similar climatic conditions. This highlights the demand to essentially improve our understanding of the driving mechanisms and to provide a basis for parameterizations of oceanic forcing that are fed into mass-loss projections. Temporal changes of glacial flow velocities are presumably linked to the evolution of the subglacial hydrological system. Depending on the type of subglacial system, the temporal acceleration of the glacier is represented by different characteristics. While this is typically investigated only along a central flow line, the spatial distribution contains more information on the cause of the acceleration. In a similar way, the spatial pattern of acceleration due to changes at the calving front is likely driven by upstream propagation of changes in stresses. Hence, understanding the mechanisms in detail requires an analysis of different physical variables in high temporal and spatial resolution and combination with ice modelling. With the new generation of satellites the era of big data has started in glaciology, and new efficient methods to analyze change patterns are required.
Supplementary material to the manuscript: Loebel, E., Scheinert, M., Horwath, M., Heidler, K., Christmann, J., Phan, L., Humbert, A., Zhu, X. (2022): Extracting glacier calving fronts by deep learning: the benefit of ...
Supplementary material to the manuscript: Döhne, T., Horwath, M., Groh, A. and Buchta, E. (2023) 'The sensitivity kernel perspective on GRACE mass change estimates', Journal of Geodesy.
The data set comprises sensitivity ...
Glacier calving front positions are derived by applying a deep learning method to multispectral Landsat-8 imagery. The product contains 9243 calving front positions across 23 Greenland outlet glaciers from March 2013 to ...
Liebezeit, Charlotte; Loebel, Erik(Technische Universität Dresden, 2023)
This product contains 170 Greenland glacier calving front positions from the following glaciers: Hagen Bræ, Helheim Glacier, Kangiata Nunaata Sermia, Nioghalvfjerdsbræ, Tracy Glacier and Zachariae Isstrøm. The glacier ...
Glacier terminus area changes are derived using the rectilinear box method applied to time series of glacier calving front locations. Terminus changes are provided in text file and image format. The following glaciers are ...
This dataset provides 898 manually delineated glacier calving front positions of 23 Greenland glaciers, two glaciers at the Antarctic Peninsula, one glacier in Svalbard and one glacier in Patagonia from 2013 to 2021. For ...