Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in cryosphere: Latest advances and prospects

C Gaffey, A Bhardwaj - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Owing to usual logistic hardships related to field-based cryospheric research, remote
sensing has played a significant role in understanding the frozen components of the Earth …

Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Antarctic surface hydrology and impacts on ice-sheet mass balance

RE Bell, AF Banwell, LD Trusel, J Kingslake - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Melting is pervasive along the ice surrounding Antarctica. On the surface of the grounded ice
sheet and floating ice shelves, extensive networks of lakes, streams and rivers both store …

Light absorption and albedo reduction by pigmented microalgae on snow and ice

LA Chevrollier, JM Cook, L Halbach… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Pigmented microalgae inhabiting snow and ice environments lower the albedo of glacier
and ice-sheet surfaces, significantly enhancing surface melt. Our ability to accurately predict …

Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo

AJ Tedstone, JM Cook, CJ Williamson, S Hofer… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
One of the primary controls upon the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is albedo, a
measure of how much solar radiation that hits a surface is reflected without being absorbed …

[HTML][HTML] An evaluation of a physics-based firn model and a semi-empirical firn model across the Greenland Ice Sheet (1980–2020)

M Thompson-Munson, N Wever, CM Stevens… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
The Greenland Ice Sheet's (GrIS) firn layer buffers the ice sheet's contribution to sea level
rise by storing meltwater in its pore space. However, available pore space and meltwater …

Supraglacial river forcing of subglacial water storage and diurnal ice sheet motion

LC Smith, LC Andrews, LH Pitcher… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Surface melting impacts ice sheet sliding by supplying water to the bed, but subglacial
processes driving ice accelerations are complex. We examine linkages between surface …

Storage and export of microbial biomass across the western Greenland Ice Sheet

TDL Irvine-Fynn, A Edwards, IT Stevens… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet harbours a wealth of microbial life, yet the total biomass
stored or exported from its surface to downstream environments is unconstrained. Here, we …

Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth

CR Walton, JK Rigley, A Lipp, R Law, MD Suttle… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Earth's surface is deficient in available forms of many elements considered limiting for
prebiotic chemistry. In contrast, many extraterrestrial rocky objects are rich in these same …

Surface meltwater runoff on the Greenland ice sheet estimated from remotely sensed supraglacial lake infilling rate

K Yang, LC Smith, X Fettweis, CJ Gleason, Y Lu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Surface runoff constitutes a large percentage of Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) mass loss at
present but is difficult to measure directly. This study provides a novel method to estimate …