Rapid wastage of the Hazen Plateau ice caps, northeastern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Serreze, Mark C.; Raup, Bruce; Braun, Carsten; Hardy, Douglas R.; Bradley, Raymond S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-169-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

The Cryosphere, 11, 169–177, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-169-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 11, 169–177, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-169-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article 25 Jan 2017

Research article | 25 Jan 2017

Rapid wastage of the Hazen Plateau ice caps, northeastern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Mark C. Serreze et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 25 Jan 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 09 Sep 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of tcd-2016-201', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Responses to anonymous reviewer #1', Mark Serreze, 07 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Glaciology', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Responses to anonymous reviewer #2', Mark Serreze, 07 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2016) Author's response

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Dec 2016) by Christian Haas

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Dec 2016) by Christian Haas

RR by Martin Sharp (16 Dec 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (22 Dec 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Dec 2016) by Christian Haas

AR by Mark Serreze on behalf of the Authors (03 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The Hazen Plateau of Ellesmere Island, Nunavat, Canada, is unglaciated with the exception of four small ice caps, the two St. Patrick Bay ice caps and the Murray and Simmons ice caps. Satellite data reveal that as of July 2016, the St. Patrick Bay ice caps have shrunk to 5 % of the area they covered in 1959 and will disappear in a few years. The Murray and Simmons ice caps have been reduced to 39 % and 25 %, respectively, of their former areas and may persist for another one or two decades.