Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2115-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2115-2022
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01 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 01 Jun 2022

Modelling the mass budget and future evolution of Tunabreen, central Spitsbergen

Johannes Oerlemans, Jack Kohler, and Adrian Luckman

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Tunabreen is a 26 km long tidewater glacier. It is the most frequently surging glacier in Svalbard, with four documented surges in the past 100 years. We have modelled this glacier to find out how it reacts to future climate change. Careful calibration was done against the observed length record for the past 100 years. For a 50 m increase in the equilibrium line altitude (ELA) the length of the glacier will be shortened by 10 km after about 100 years.
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