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| Mojica-Moncada,Diego F.; Cárdenas,Carlos; Mojica-Moncada,Jhon F.; Brondi,Fabian; Barragán-Barrera,Dalia C.; Marangunic,Cedomir; Holland,David; Franco Herrera,Andrés; Casassa,Gino. |
| ABSTRACT In the western Antarctic Peninsula one of the areas the highest warming in the southern hemisphere has been identified. To characterize this tendency, we selected the Lange Glacier (LG) on King George Island, to evaluate: 1) LG surface temperature and dynamics using stakes with temperature data loggers; 2) LG submerged thickness and sea parameters through bathymetry (BT) and 29 CTD stations in front of LG; 3) glacier front (GF) using BT and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM); 4) change in GF position using DEM and historical data of GF width; 5) Calving flux (QC). Our findings showed 85 % of temperatures were above the 0 °C melting point (mean = 5.0 ± 5.2 °C). The stakes had an average ice loss of 9.3 ± 1.3 cm. The LG mean dynamics was 8.8 ± 1.5 m... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Lange Glacier; Melting; Climate change; Calving flux; Antarctica. |
| Ano: 2021 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612021000300059 |
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