glaciers and ice caps was chaired by
Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson, glaciologist at IMO. (Photo: IMO)
Martin Sharp (University of Alberta, Canada), presented results on
mass loss from glaciers and ice caps in Arctic Canada, where the ice cover
totals 146 thousand km2. The
total ice volume is tenfold the volume
of glaciers in Iceland and the estimated mass loss during 2006–2015 was 70
gigatons (GT
/about-imo/news/glacier-change-sessions-at-this-year-s-arctic-circle-assembly