IV: Ice velocity – costal regions + select areas (phase 1), all ice sheet (ph. 2) SEC: Surface elevation changes, ERS/Envisat/CryoSat, 1991-2014 GLL: Grounding.
A glacier forms when winter snowfall in an area exceeds summer melt and therefore accumulates year after year. Snow is compacted and converted to glacial.
Black Ice
Mt. Sir MacDonald and Illecillewaet Glacier, 1902 (~end of Little Ice Age (LIA)
Visualisation of changes in alpine glaciers in western Canada Roger Wheate, University of Northern BC Mt. Sir MacDonald and Illecillewaet Glacier, 1902.
