Hans Tausen Ice Cap

Coordinates: 82°30′00″N 37°30′00″W / 82.5000°N 37.5000°W / 82.5000; -37.5000
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Hans Tausen Iskappe is an ice cap in northern Greenland. It is about 75 km from north to south and 50 km from east to west and sits on a 1000 m high plateau. Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the Holocene climatic optimum of 6000-8000 BP.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

It is the source of many glaciers, including Ymer Gletscher, Lurgletscher and the Tjalfe Gletscher.[7] It is a well studied ice cap, and is important to understanding the last Climatic Optimum. (Holocene climatic optimum)[8]

The future development of the ice cap is highly dependent upon summer temperatures.[9]

References

  1. ^ Hans Tausen Iskappe, North Greenland - Studies using an ice flow model
  2. ^ http://epic.awi.de/2036/
  3. ^ http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/publications/theses/hanstauseniskappenorthgreenland-studiesusinganiceflowmodel.pdf/
  4. ^ "Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29: 3379–3398. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.044.
  5. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jon_Landvik/publication/230709679_The_glacial_history_of_the_Hans_Tausen_Iskappe_and_the_last_glaciation_of_Peary_Land_North_Greenland/links/0fcfd50e0335f57e48000000.pdf
  6. ^ http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-1540.pdf
  7. ^ http://travelingluck.com/North+America/Greenland/Nordgr%C3%B8nland/_3423569_Hans+Tausen+Iskappe.html#local_map
  8. ^ Landvik et al 2001
  9. ^ Paper on ice flow PDF

82°30′00″N 37°30′00″W / 82.5000°N 37.5000°W / 82.5000; -37.5000

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