The influence of hydrology on the dynamics of land-terminating sectors of the Greenland ice sheet

BJ Davison, AJ Sole, SJ Livingstone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coupling between runoff, hydrology, basal motion, and mass loss (“hydrology-dynamics”) is
a critical component of the Greenland Ice Sheet system. Despite considerable research …

Supraglacial streams and rivers

LH Pitcher, LC Smith - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Supraglacial meltwater channels that flow on the surfaces of glaciers, ice sheets, and ice
shelves connect ice surface climatology with subglacial processes, ice dynamics, and …

Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river

RE Bell, W Chu, J Kingslake, I Das, M Tedesco… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Meltwater stored in ponds and crevasses can weaken and fracture ice shelves, triggering
their rapid disintegration. This ice-shelf collapse results in an increased flux of ice from …

[HTML][HTML] Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019

KD Mankoff, B Noël, X Fettweis… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Greenland runoff, from ice mass loss and increasing rainfall, is increasing. That runoff, as
discharge, impacts the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the adjacent fjords …

Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution

DA Slater, D Felikson, F Straneo, H Goelzer… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Abstract Changes in ocean temperature and salinity are expected to be an important
determinant of the Greenland ice sheet's future sea level contribution. Yet, simulating the …

Resolving seasonal ice velocity of 45 Greenlandic glaciers with very high temporal details

S Vijay, SA Khan, A Kusk, AM Solgaard… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal glacier ice velocities are important for understanding controlling mechanisms of
ice flow. For many Greenlandic glaciers, however, these measurements are limited by low …

Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland ice sheet surface

LC Smith, K Yang, LH Pitcher… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Meltwater runoff from the Greenland ice sheet surface influences surface mass balance
(SMB), ice dynamics, and global sea level rise, but is estimated with climate models and …

Extensive winter subglacial water storage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

W Chu, DM Schroeder, H Seroussi… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Surface meltwater that reaches the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet exerts a fundamental
impact on ice flow, but observations of catchment‐wide movement and distribution of …

Moulin density controls drainage development beneath the Greenland ice sheet

A Banwell, I Hewitt, I Willis… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty remains about how the surface hydrology of the Greenland ice sheet influences
its subglacial drainage system, affecting basal water pressures and ice velocities …

Multisystem synthesis of radar sounding observations of the Amundsen Sea sector from the 2004–2005 field season

W Chu, AM Hilger, R Culberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Amundsen Sea Embayment of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contains Thwaites
and Pine Island Glaciers, two of the most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica. To date …