Centennial response of Greenland’s three largest outlet glaciers

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Khan, Shfaqat A., Bjørk, Anders A., Bamber, Jonathan L., Morlighem, Mathieu, Bevis, Michael, Kjær, Kurt H., Mouginot, Jérémie, Løkkegaard, Anja, Holland, David M., Aschwanden, Andy, Zhang, Bao, Helm, Veit, Korsgaard, Niels J., Colgan, William, Larsen, Nicolaj K., Liu, Lin, Hansen, Karina, Barletta, Valentina, Dahl-Jensen, Trine S., Søndergaard, Anne Sofie, Csatho, Beata M., Sasgen, Ingo, Box, Jason, Schenk, Toni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Chemistry; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19580-5; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19580-5.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19580-5

Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest land ice contributor to sea level rise. This will continue in the future but at an uncertain rate and observational estimates are limited to the last few decades. Understanding the long-term glacier response to external forcing is key to improving proj...