Freshwater input to the Arctic fjord Hornsund (Svalbard)

Glaciers draining to the Hornsund basin (southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard) have experienced a significant retreat and mass volume loss over the last decades, increasing the input of freshwater into the fjord. An increase in freshwater input can influence fjord hydrology, hydrodynamics, sediment flux a...

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Vydáno v:Polar research Ročník 38; s. 1 - 18
Hlavní autoři: Błaszczyk, Małgorzata, Ignatiuk, Dariusz, Uszczyk, Aleksander, Cielecka-Nowak, Katarzyna, Grabiec, Mariusz, Jania, Jacek A., Moskalik, Mateusz, Walczowski, Waldemar
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Spånga Open Academia 16.04.2019
Norwegian Polar Institute
Témata:
Ablation
Accuracy
Biota
Climate change
Drainage basins
Fjords
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Fresh water
Freshwater
frontal ablation
Geomorphology
Glacier melting
glacier meltwater runoff
Glaciers
Glaciohydrology
Hydrodynamics
Hydrology
Ice
Inland water environment
Mass
Meltwater
Meteorological data
Precipitation
Runoff
Snow cover
snow cover on land
Summer
Svalbard fjords
Tidewater
Velocity
Barents Sea
Arctic region
ISSN:0800-0395, 1751-8369
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Shrnutí:Glaciers draining to the Hornsund basin (southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard) have experienced a significant retreat and mass volume loss over the last decades, increasing the input of freshwater into the fjord. An increase in freshwater input can influence fjord hydrology, hydrodynamics, sediment flux and biota, especially in a changing climate. Here, we describe the sources of freshwater supply to the fjord based on glaciological and meteorological data from the period 2006 to 2015. The average freshwater input from land to the Hornsund bay is calculated as 2517 ± 82 Mt a−1, with main contributions from glacier meltwater runoff (986 Mt a−1; 39%) and frontal ablation of tidewater glaciers (634 Mt a−1; 25%). Tidewater glaciers in Hornsund lose ca. 40% of their mass by frontal ablation. The terminus retreat component accounts for ca. 30% of the mass loss by frontal ablation, but it can vary between 17% and 44% depending on oceanological, meteorological and geomorphological factors. The contribution of the total precipitation over land excluding winter snowfall (520 Mt a−1), total precipitation over the fjord area (180 Mt a−1) and melting of the snow cover over unglaciated areas (197 Mt a−1) to the total freshwater input appear to be small: 21%, 7% and 8%, respectively.
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ISSN:0800-0395
1751-8369
DOI:10.33265/polar.v38.3506