Volume loss from Bering Glacier (Alaska), 1972 - 2003: comment on Muskett and others (2009)

Etienne Berthier (1)

1 LEGOS - Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales

Alaskan glaciers have experienced rapid and accelerating wastage over the past four to five decades (Arendt and others, 2002) and accounted for 0.120.02mma–1 (7.5%) of total sea-level rise between 1962 and 2006 (Berthier and others, 2010). Ice loss in Alaska is dominated by a few large glaciers located in the vicinity of the Gulf of Alaska (e.g. Columbia, Malaspina and Bering Glaciers). Among them, the Bering Glacier system (BGS) is often regarded as the largest glacier system in North America, with an area of nearly 4400km² (Beedle and others, 2008), or > 5000km² if the accumulation area of Tana Glacier is included (Molnia, 2007).

Domaines: Océanographie

Etienne Berthier. Volume loss from Bering Glacier (Alaska), 1972 - 2003: comment on Muskett and others (2009). Journal of Glaciology, 2010, 56 (197), pp.555-557. ⟨hal-00537726⟩