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Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2449-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2449-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Research article
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23 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2022

Unravelling the long-term, locally heterogenous response of Greenland glaciers observed in archival photography

Michael A. Cooper, Paulina Lewińska, William A. P. Smith, Edwin R. Hancock, Julian A. Dowdeswell, and David M. Rippin

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2449-2022-supplement

Data sets

East Greenland (66.3 and 68.4°N) glacier front position shape files David M. Rippin, William A. P. Smith, Michael A. Cooper, Edwin Hancock, and Paulina Lewińska https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.941995

Orthophotomaps of East Greenland, in particular of the 260 km-long section of coastline between 66.3 and 68.4°N Paulina Lewińska, David M. Rippin, William A. P. Smith, Edwin Hancock, and Michael A. Cooper https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942134

USGS EROS Archive - Declassified Data - Declassified Satellite Imagery - 1 Earth Resources Observation and Science Center https://doi.org/10.5066/F78P5XZM

ArcticDEM Claire Porter, Paul Morin, Ian Howat, Myoung-Jon Noh, Brian Bates, Kenneth Peterman, Scott Keesey, Matthew Schlenk, Judith Gardiner, Karen Tomko, Michael Willis, Cole Kelleher, Michael Cloutier, Eric Husby, Steven Foga, Hitomi Nakamura, Melisa Platson, Michael, Jr. Wethington, Cathleen Williamson, Gregory Bauer, Jeremy Enos, Galen Arnold, William Kramer, Peter Becker, Abhijit Doshi, Cristelle D'Souza, Pat Cummens, Fabien Laurier, and Mikkel Bojesen https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OHHUKH

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Here we use old photographs gathered several decades ago to expand the temporal record of glacier change in part of East Greenland. This is important because the longer the record of past glacier change, the better we are at predicting future glacier behaviour. Our work also shows that despite all these glaciers retreating, the rate at which they do this varies markedly. It is therefore important to consider outlet glaciers from Greenland individually to take account of this differing behaviour.
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