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. 2019 Sep 26;9:13918. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50273-2

Table 1.

Area changes at Jamtalferner for the period 1864–2018, with annual area losses and lowest glacier altitudes in the periods from direct measurements and calculated from the shapes (GIS). *… no DEM of the glacier bed is available.

Year Interval (in years) to previous measurement Area Annual area loss Lowest glacier altitude
years km² % of LIA maximum km²/y %/y m a.s.l.
1864 6.041 ### 2120
1895 31 5.252 86.9 −0.025 −0.4 2175
1898 3 5.247 86.9 −0.002 0.0 2178
1904 6 5.208 86.2 −0.006 −0.1 2202
1909 5 5.174 85.6 −0.007 −0.1 2236
1921 12 5.136 85.0 −0.003 −0.1 2236
1954 33 4.531 75.0 −0.018 −0.3 2262
1969 15 4.141 68.6 −0.026 −0.4 2397
1970 1 4.115 68.1 −0.026 −0.4 2398
1995 25 3.896 64.5 −0.009 −0.1 2403
1996 1 3.808 63.0 −0.088 −1.5 2403
2002 6 3.682 61.0 −0.021 −0.3 2404
2006 4 3.571 59.1 −0.028 −0.5 2406
2009 3 3.375 55.9 −0.065 −1.1 *
2010 1 3.207 53.1 −0.168 −2.8 *
2015 5 2.818 46.6 −0.078 −1.3 *
Total 151