in km2 and
km3, respectively, and c = 0:036, g = 1:
36 for the valley glaciers. Figure 2 shows the same five
Icelandic ice caps and the same regression lines together with volume–area data for eight ice
caps and glaciers on Svalbard and in Scandinavia and the much larger ice sheets of Greenland
and Antarctica.
Figures 1 and 2 show that reasonable approximations for the ice volume stored in glaciers
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