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Glaciological investigations of surging ice caps in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, 1983

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

D. J. Drewry  and
O. Liestøl
D. J. Drewry
Affiliation:
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of CambridgeLensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER
O. Liestøl
Affiliation:
Norsk Polarinstitutt, Rolfstangveien 12, Oslo, Norway
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Abstract

During spring 1983 a joint British-Norwegian expedition from the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and the Norsk Polarinstitutt (NP) undertook a programme of glaciological research in the Svalbard archipelago. Work focussed on obtaining airborne radio echo sounding measurements using a newly-constructed digital system and some reconnaissance observations (temperatures, net mass budgets and ice velocities) on the ice caps of Nordaustlandet for the investigation of their surging behaviour. Valley glaciers in Spitsbergen and the ice cap on Kvitøya were also sounded from the air.

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Polar Record , Volume 22 , Issue 139 , January 1985 , pp. 359 - 378
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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