Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard

Strozzi, Tazio; Kääb, Andreas; Schellenberger, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-553-2017

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article

|

16 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 16 Feb 2017

Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard

Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Kääb, and Thomas Schellenberger

Download

Final revised paper (published on 16 Feb 2017)
Supplement to the final revised paper
Preprint (discussion started on 28 Sep 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Review of Strozzi et al. - Frontal destabilisation of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Tazio Strozzi, 09 Jan 2017
RC2: 'Review of Strozzi et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Tazio Strozzi, 09 Jan 2017

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Tazio Strozzi on behalf of the Authors (10 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (13 Jan 2017) by Olivier Gagliardini

Dear Tazio,

Thanks for this new version of your manuscript and the point to point reply to both reviews. I am happy to accept your paper for publication in The Cryosphere. I have nevertheless few minor comments that should be accounted for before final publication (see below).

Thanks for having choosing The Cryosphere to publish your work,
Olivier Gagliardini

Comments:
page and line refer to the paper version with highlighted changed.

- page 1, line 20: the contribution of glaciers and ice-sheets is closer to 2/3 of the current total SLR than 1/3?

- page 2, line 13 and at other places in the manuscript: pin-point should be pinning-point?

- page 2, line 24: the total glacier mass balance of of the ice masses of the Svalbard Archipelago -> the total glacier mass balance of the Svalbard Archipelago

- page 3, line 17: earth -> Earth

- page 5, line 6 (and elsewhere in the manuscript, check this): 1:100'000 -> 1:100 000

- Table 2: I still think that this long table should be moved in the supplementary material and synthetic informations (number of maps and time interval) given after the introduction of each instrument.

- page 6, line 1 (and elsewhere in the manuscript, check this): 3-days -> 3-day

- page 6, line 3: don't -> do not

- page 6, line 5, pair is only 15 m the phase -> pair is only 15 m, the phase

- Legend of Fig. 3 and elsewhere in the text: not sure that coastal line is correct. Isn't it coast line ?

- page 10, line 3: the sentence "So far, no deceleration phase is observed over the glacier" is a bit in contradiction with what is said elsewhere as you have observed lower winter velocity since 2015? May be you should elaborate a bit more about what you want to said here?

- page 10, line 21: are lower than the surface speeds -> are lower than the increase in surface speeds

- page 10, line 24: in ice deformation from -> in deformational velocity from (because the value you give after are velocity and not deformation).

- page 13, lines 10 - 16: 1'200-> 1 200 ; km^3: delete '^' and 3 should be an exponent of km

- page 13, line 20: the total mass loss of Edgeøyjøkulen should be given in the same units as the value for Stonebreen (km3/yr instead of Gt/yr) to allow an easy comparison.

Hide

AR by Tazio Strozzi on behalf of the Authors (23 Jan 2017) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Jan 2017) by Olivier Gagliardini

AR by Tazio Strozzi on behalf of the Authors (26 Jan 2017)

Short summary

The strong atmospheric warming observed since the 1990s in polar regions requires quantifying the contribution to sea level rise of glaciers and ice caps, but for large areas we do not have much information on ice dynamic fluctuations. The recent increase in satellite data opens up new possibilities to monitor ice flow. We observed over Stonebreen on Edgeøya (Svalbard) a strong increase since 2012 in ice surface velocity along with a decrease in volume and an advance in frontal extension.