2LEGOS, Toulouse, France
3National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract.
We assess the mean mass balance of three ice caps in South Iceland, for two periods, 1980
to 1998 and 1998 to 2004, by comparing digital elevation models (DEMs) covering the entire
glaciers; Eyjafjallajökull (81 km2), Tindfjallajökull (15 km2) and Torfajökull (14 km2). The
DEMs were
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). The ice caps are Eyjafjallajo¨kull (ca. 81 km2),
Tindfjallajo¨kull (ca. 15 km2) and Torfajo¨kull (ca. 14 km2). The DEMs were
compiled using aerial photographs from 1979 to 1984, airborne Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) images obtained in 1998 and two image pairs from the
SPOT 5 satellite’s high-resolution stereoscopic (HRS) instrument acquired in
2004. The ice-free part of the accurate DEM from 1998
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