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Monitoring Glacier Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula

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The Antarctic Peninsula has exhibited some of the most spectacular changes observed in glacial systems in recent decades. The events include disintegration of ice shelves, acceleration and thinning of glaciers, variations in the limits between glacier facies, and retreat of glacier fronts. However, due to the lack of both consistent systematic observations of the glacial systems and information on their boundary conditions, it is difficult to accurately predict the contribution of Antarctic Peninsula glaciers to sea level rise and further responses of these ice masses to climatic and oceanographic changes. In this context, the activities of the GLIMS Regional Center for the Antarctic Peninsula and its network of international collaborators are based on the use of various types of Earth observation imagery, mainly optical and radar data. Although a complete glacier inventory is still lacking, we present the results of changes in glacier frontal positions and boundaries of glacier facies as well as links to dynamical adjustments for various locations in the Antarctic Peninsula’s ice masses. Evaluation of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer (ASTER) digital elevation models generated for the Antarctic Peninsula is also discussed.

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This work was partially supported under grants BR 2105/4-1/2/3 and BR 2105/8-1 from the German Research Foundation, and grants CNPq 480701/2008-3 and CNPq 573720/2008-8 (Brazilian National Institute for Cryospheric Sciences) from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. TerraSAR-X data were acquired by the TerraSAR-X background mission entitled “Antarctic Peninsula and Antarctic Ice Shelves” as well as under proposal LAN_0013 from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Envisat ASAR data were kindly provided under ESA IPY AO 4032, ERS-1/2 data were available within the CryoSat Data AO Project 2658, and ASTER data were provided in the context of the GLIMS project. ASTER data courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/Japan Space Systems, the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, and the GLIMS project.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Ciência E Tecnologia da Criosfera, Laboratório de Monitoramento da Criosfera, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil

    Jorge Arigony-Neto & Cláudio Wilson Mendes Júnior

  2. Glaciarium, Museo del Hielo Patagónico, El Calafate, Argentina

    Pedro Skvarca

  3. División Glaciología, Instituto Antártico Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Sebastián Marinsek

  4. Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Matthias Braun

  5. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

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    Cláudio Wilson Mendes Júnior

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    Ricardo Jaña

  8. Fundación Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario, Punta Arenas, Chile

    Ricardo Jaña

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Arigony-Neto, J. et al. (2014). Monitoring Glacier Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula. In: Kargel, J., Leonard, G., Bishop, M., Kääb, A., Raup, B. (eds) Global Land Ice Measurements from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_30

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