A decade of monthly frontal ablation  at 147 tidewater glaciers in Svalbard

Pyles, Dakota; Dreier, Marcel; Wendleder, Anna; Kochtitzky, Will; Gourmelon, Nora; Christlein, Vincent; Seehaus, Thorsten

doi:10.5194/essd-18-7319-2026

Articles | Volume 18, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-7319-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-7319-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 10

Data description article

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06 Oct 2026

Data description article |

| 06 Oct 2026

A decade of monthly frontal ablation at 147 tidewater glaciers in Svalbard

Dakota Pyles, Marcel Dreier, Anna Wendleder, Will Kochtitzky, Nora Gourmelon, Vincent Christlein, and Thorsten Seehaus

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-7319-2026-supplement

Data sets

Monthly Frontal Ablation at 147 Tidewater Glaciers in Svalbard (2015–2024) Dakota Pyles et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19481461

CaFFe (CAlving Fronts and where to Find thEm: a benchmark dataset and methodology for automatic glacier calving front extraction from sar imagery) [dataset] Nora Gourmelon et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940950

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Monthly frontal ablation is quantified at 147 Svalbard tidewater glaciers from 2015–2024 using terminus positions derived from a deep-learning segmentation model's predictions of the calving fronts on satellite radar images. Our high spatio-temporal resolution results will improve the process understanding of frontal ablation, provide reference data for the modeling community, and deliver an ideal dataset for studying controls of frontal ablation.