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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1317-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1317-2016
Research article
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24 Jun 2016
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2016

Accelerating retreat and high-elevation thinning of glaciers in central Spitsbergen

Jakub Małecki

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Svalbard is a major terrestrial ice repository in the Arctic. This paper characterizes response of glaciers in its central part (Dickson Land) to climate change. After the Little Ice Age termination (ca. 1900) all glaciers have been retreating with an accelerating trend. After 1990 they have been thinning also in their highest zones, so most of them may be expected to disappear. These negative changes are linked to increasing air temperature over the region and contribute to sea-level rise.