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Glacier fluctuations and dynamics around the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet

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Greenland’s ice cover has undergone remarkable changes in the last two decades as a response to forcing from the atmosphere and ocean. This period coincides with the evolution of remote-sensing platforms towards higher spatiotemporal resolutions. In this chapter, we give an overview of some of the key glaciological findings emerging from Greenland in the past two decades, and describe two case studies in which GLIMS data are used to provide new insights into regional changes in Greenland’s glaciers.

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Acknowledgments

L.A.S. partially carried out her work at the University of Maine and thanks Gordon S. Hamilton for collaborative input. Research support for L.A.S. was provided by NASA grant NNX08AD38G awarded to G.S. Hamilton. H.J. thanks her student Dan Junlin for assistance with glacier inventory development and analysis. Research support to H.J. was through NSERC Discovery and NSERC UFA grants. 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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Stearns, L.A., Jiskoot, H. (2014). Glacier fluctuations and dynamics around the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. 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_8

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