Records of the time variation of the terminus position of Icelandic glaciers since 1700 show clear responses to the little ice age and to the warm period from 1930 to 1960. These data are used to deduce limits for the response time of the glaciers. The response time turns out to be of the order of one or two hundred years. This is much shorter than the “long response time” of Nye’s kinematic wave theory.
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Tómas Jøhannesson (1986) studied this question.
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