Warm water pathways toward Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Schaffer, Janin, von Appen, Wilken-Jon, Dodd, Paul A., Hofstede, Coen, Mayer, Christoph, de Steur, Laura, Kanzow, Torsten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Fram Strait; glacier; Greenland; Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45084/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JC012462/pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51336

Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier (79NG) is the largest of three marine-terminating outlet glaciers draining the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. To understand how Atlantic waters supply waters in the cavity beneath the floating 79NG, we analyze historic and recent bathymetric, hydrographic, and velocity...