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From: Contemporary mass balance on a cold Eastern Alpine ice cap as a potential link to the Holocene climate

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(a) The drilling site at the summit glacier at Weißseespitze (red square) is part of Gepatschferner (GPF); on neighbouring Kesselwandferner glacier Austria’s previously highest altitude stakes have been operated since the late 1960s; (b) ice thickness has been measured with GPR, ablation stakes were drilled (a–f), an automatic weather station (AWS) was installed and an ice core was drilled in March 2018 (15). Photos from the north (c) and east (d) show the summit ice cap at Weißseespitze (viewing directions: yellow arrows in (a). The visual ice core stratigraphy (e) shows a dark layer and bandings of variable inclination and bubble density. The relation of these features with regards to an atmospheric or glaciological origin remains unclear. Only a detailed understanding of the physical processes governing the mass balance can fill this gap. This figure was created with Adobe Illustrator CS4 version 14.0.0 (www.adobe.com). The maps were compiled with ArcMap 10.6.1 (www.arcgis.com).

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