Supraglacial lake expansion, intensified lake drainage frequency, and first observation of coupled lake drainage, during 1985–2020 at Ryder Glacier, Northern Greenland

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Otto, Jacqueline, Holmes, Felicity A., Kirchner, Nina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Greenland; Ryder; Ryder Glacier; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.978137; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.978137/full

Along the Greenland Ice Sheet margin, supraglacial lakes store and redistribute ice sheet surface run off, and comprise an important potential hydrological link between the ice surface and the base, with ramifications for subglacial drainage systems and ice flow. As a consequence of increasing globa...