Elevation Change of Drangajdkull, Iceland, from Cloud-Cleared ICESat Repeat Profiles and GPS Ground-Survey Data
| dc.contributor.author | Shuman, Christopher | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sigurdsson, Oddur | |
| dc.contributor.author | Williams, Richard Jr. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hall, Dorothy K. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-16T15:59:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-16T15:59:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-06-07 | |
| dc.description | 66th Eastern Snow Conference (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Located on the Vestfirdir Northwest Fjords), DrangaJokull is the northernmost ice map in Iceland. Currently, the ice cap exceeds 900 m in elevation and covered an area of approx.l46 sq km in August 2004. It was about 204 sq km in area during 1913-1914 and so has lost mass during the 20th century. Drangajokull's size and accessibility for GPS surveys as well as the availability of repeat satellite altimetry profiles since late 2003 make it a good subject for change-detection analysis. The ice cap was surveyed by four GPS-equipped snowmobiles on 19-20 April 2005 and has been profiled in two places by Ice, Cloud. and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) 'repeat tracks,' fifteen times from late to early 2009. In addition, traditional mass-balance measurements have been taken seasonally at a number of locations across the ice cap and they show positive net mass balances in 2004/2005 through 2006/2007. Mean elevation differences between the temporally-closest ICESat profiles and the GPS-derived digital-elevation model (DEM)(ICESat - DEM) are about 1.1 m but have standard deviations of 3 to 4 m. Differencing all ICESat repeats from the DEM shows that the overall elevation difference trend since 2003 is negative with losses of as much as 1.5 m/a from same season to same season (and similar elevation) data subsets. However, the mass balance assessments by traditional stake re-measurement methods suggest that the elevation changes where ICESat tracks 0046 and 0307 cross Drangajokull are not representative of the whole ice cap. Specifically, the area has experienced positive mass balance years during the time frame when ICESat data indicates substantial losses. This analysis suggests that ICESat-derived elevations may be used for multi-year change detection relative to other data but suggests that large uncertainties remain. These uncertainties may be due to geolocation uncertainty on steep slopes and continuing cloud cover that limits temporal and spatial coverage across the area. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors appreciate the assistance of two anonymous reviewers and Anthony Arendt who reviewed ao early version nf this paper for the 2008D3S Mass Balance meeting ioNorway. Also, we thank Vijay P. Socbdo ' CbmdmCaoabajal ` and Kbobody A. Casey for uNc mupyun and data processing mty4&GA/GS9C. In odditioo, humidox the unNhum who took part in the fieldwork (8igur0000u and Williams), we are indebted to the other personnel who collected the G y8 data in April 2005 across DrangaJ6kulI and thus assisted this elevation-change assessment | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110005680 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 14 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2knaf-dlav | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shuman, Christopher, et al. Elevation Change of Drangajokull, Iceland, from Cloud-Cleared ICESat Repeat Profiles and GPS Ground-Survey Data. 66th Eastern Snow Conference (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario), 2009. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110005680. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/24285 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Eastern Snow Conference | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
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| dc.title | Elevation Change of Drangajdkull, Iceland, from Cloud-Cleared ICESat Repeat Profiles and GPS Ground-Survey Data | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9606-767X | en_US |