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Surface Mass Balance Of The Ward Hunt Ice Rise And Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, C. Braun, D. R. Hardy, Raymond S. Bradley, V. Sahanatien
Surface Mass Balance Of The Ward Hunt Ice Rise And Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, C. Braun, D. R. Hardy, Raymond S. Bradley, V. Sahanatien
Raymond S Bradley
The Ward Hunt Ice Rise and Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, located on Ellesmere Island, Canada, are two of the northernmost land ice masses on the North American continent. Surface mass balance measurements (excluding calving and subice processes) began in 1959 on the ice rise and in 1966 on the ice shelf but were frequently interrupted, most recently between 1986 and 2002. The surface balance of the ice rise and ice shelf follows the temporal pattern seen on other measured High Arctic glaciers. The overall surface mass losses over the last 45 years have been comparatively low (1.68 m water equivalent …