Search results for "glaciology"

Snow drills : snowpack investigations at local scale

2015

PRISM - Permafrost, Rock, Ice and Snow monitoring in the Austre Lovén glacier basin (Spitsberg)

2017

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Spatial variability of snow cover in the slopes of a small arctic glacier catchment using Lidar data

2017

International audience; In the Arctic, because glaciers are subject to dramatic changes due to climate shift, a major concern is to estimate the contribution of glacier basins outflows to sea level rise. Snow on the Austre Lovénbreen (a small alpine type glacier in Spitsbergen – 4,6km 2) has been well studied since 2007 thanks to a good measurement network and numerous field campaigns. It has been possible to estimate the runoff coming from the glacier itself. However, the glacier covers only 43% of the Austre Lovén catchment. Of the remaining 57%, 23% are constituted by the moraine area, and 34 % are the surrounding slopes, which are also important snow storages. This paper focusing on slo…

A multivariate approach of the factors impacting a small arctic glacier, Austre Lovén-Spitsberg

2015

International audience; Arctic glaciers are good indicators of the ongoing climate change as their dynamics are strongly linked to it. This study is focused on the Austre Lovén glacier, on the Brøgger peninsula in Spitsbergen (Svalbard, 79°N). The aim is to understand how contrasted climate and snow conditions over the course of a year can lead to multiple consequences, sometimes unexpected, on mass balance. In 2014, a negative budget was expected, but data analysis has shown the first positive mass balance in 7 years. The objective here is to (i) identify and qualify the combination of factors affecting an arctic glacier mass balance. Three primary indicators seem to display the greatest i…

Clastic injection dynamics during ice front oscillations: A case example from Sólheimajökull (Iceland).

2015

18 pages; International audience; Soft-sediment deformation structures are being increasingly used as a tool for reconstructing palaeoenvironments and porewater pressure conditions in glacial settings. However, the potential of hydrofractures and clastic injections in the reconstruction of ice dynamics remains poorly constrained. This paper presents the results of a detailed study of a clastic injection network outcropping in the Sólheimajökull forefield (South Iceland). Sedimentological descriptions are combined with microscopic to macroscopic analyses of clastic injection geometries, sediment-fills, and cross-cutting relationships. The 250 m long and 20 m high exposure observed along the …

Fluid-pressure controlled soft-bed deformation sequence beneath the surging Breiðamerkurjökull (Iceland, Little Ice Age).

2009

16 pages; International audience; The general subject of this paper is subglacial deformation beneath Breiðamerkurjökull, a surging Icelandic glacier. More specifically it discusses the evolution and the role of fluid pressure on the behaviour of subglacial sediments during deformation. During Little Ice Age maximum, the two outcrops studied, North Jökulsarlon (N-Jk) and Brennhola-Alda (BA), were located at 2550 m and 550 m respectively from the front of the Breiðamerkurjökull. Sedimentological analysis at the forefield of the glacier shows thick, coarse glaciofluvial deposits interbedded with thin, fine-grained shallow lacustrine/swamp deposits, overlain by a deformed till unit at N-Jk. BA…