Greenland firn aquifer impacts on ice sheet hydrology, near Helheim Glacier, Greenland, 2015-2016.
In spring of 2011, a perennial storage of water was observed in the firn of the southeastern Greenland ice sheet, a region of both high snow accumulation and high melt. This aquifer is created through percolation of surface meltwater downward through the firn, saturating the pore space above the ice...
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Arctic Data Center
2018
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