Estimating Ice Discharge at Greenland's Three Largest Outlet Glaciers Using Local Bedrock Uplift

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Hansen, Karina, Truffer, Martin, Aschwanden, A., Mankoff, Kenneth D., Bevis, Michael, Humbert, Angelika, Broeke, M. R. van den, Noël, Brice P. Y., Bjørk, Anders A., Colgan, William, Kjær, K., Adhikari, Surendra, Barletta, Valentina, Khan, Shfaqat Abbas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: glacier; Greenland; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; Kangerlussuaq
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55266/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55266/1/hansen2021grl.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL094252; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.95356823-9572-48d0-8882-b5356c4fee1d

We present a novel method to estimate dynamic ice loss of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers: Jakobshavn Isbræ, Kangerlussuaq Glacier, and Helheim Glacier. We use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations attached to bedrock to measure elastic displacements of the solid Earth ca...