Multi-hazard susceptibility mapping of cryospheric hazards in a high-Arctic environment: Svalbard Archipelago

Abstract 2. This area was chosen because it represents the most concentrated ice-free area of the Svalbard Archipelago and, at the same time, where most of the current human settlements are concentrated. The inventories were created through the visual interpretation of high-resolution aerial photographs as part of our ongoing effort toward creating a pan-Arctic repository of TSs and TEGs. Overall, we mapped 562 TSs and 908 TEGs, from which we separately generated two susceptibility maps using a generalised additive model (GAM) approach, under the assumption that TSs and TEGs manifest across Nordenskiöld Land, according to a Bernoulli probability distribution. Once the modelling results were validated, the two susceptibility patterns were combined into the first multi-hazard cryospheric susceptibility map of the area. The two inventories are available at 10.1594/PANGAEA.945348 (Nicu et al., 2022a) and 10.1594/PANGAEA.945395 (Nicu et al., 2022b).

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Multi-hazard susceptibility mapping of cryospheric hazards in a high-Arctic environment: Svalbard Archipelago ; volume:15 ; number:1 ; year:2023 ; pages:447-464 ; extent:18 ; Earth system science data ; 15, Heft 1 (2023), 447-464 (gesamt 18)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Nicu, Ionut Cristi ; Elia, Letizia ; Rubensdotter, Lena ; Tanyaş, Hakan ; Lombardo, Luigi

Further information

• DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-447-2023
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023033007493961285392
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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