Service Documentation

Sub-service Snow (MET Norway)

Sub-service Sea Ice (MET Norway)

Sub-service Glaciers Mainland Norway (NVE)

Sub-service Glaciers Svalbard (NPI)


Key scientific background papers

Sub-service Snow

Solberg, R., M. Killie, L. M. Andreassen and M. König, 2014. CryoClim: A new system and service for climate monitoring of the cryosphere. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 17, 012008. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012008

Rudjord, Ø., A.-B. Salberg and R. Solberg, 2015. Global snow cover mapping using a multi-temporal multi-sensor approach. In Proceedings of the 2015 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (Multi-Temp). doi:10.1109/Multi-Temp.2015.7245775

Sub-service Sea Ice

Lavergne, T., Sørensen, A. M., Kern, S., Tonboe, R., Notz, D., Aaboe, S., Bell, L., Dybkjær, G., Eastwood, S., Gabarro, C., Heygster, G., Killie, M. A., Brandt Kreiner, M., Lavelle, J., Saldo, R., Sandven, S., and Pedersen, L. T., 2019. Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records. The Cryosphere, 13, 49–78, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-49-2019.

Sub-service Glaciers Mainland Norway

Winsvold, S. H., L. M. Andreassen, C. Kienholz., 2014. Glacier area and length changes in Norway from repeat inventories. The Cryosphere, 8, 1885-1903, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1885-2014

Andreassen, L.M., H. Elvehøy, B. Kjøllmoen, J.M.C. Belart. 2020. Glacier change in Norway since the 1960s – an overview of mass balance, area, length and surface elevation changes. Journal of Glaciology, 1–16. doi:10.1017/jog.2020.10

Andreassen, L.M. (ed.), G. Moholdt, A. Kääb, A. Messerli, T. Nagy and S.H. Winsvold., 2021. Monitoring glaciers in mainland Norway and Svalbard using Sentinel. NVE Rapport 3-2021, 94 s. https://publikasjoner.nve.no/rapport/2021/rapport2021_03.pdf

Sub-service Glaciers Svalbard

Nuth, C., J. Kohler, M. König, A. von Deschwanden, J. O. Hagen, A. Kääb, G. Moholdt and R. Pettersson, 2013. Decadal changes from a multi-temporal glacier inventory of Svalbard. Cryosphere, 7, 1603–1621. doi:10.5194/tc-7-1603-2013.