Time Scale for Rapid Draining of a Surficial Lake Into the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Published in: Journal of Applied Mechanics
• Main Authors: Rice, James R., Tsai, Victor C., Fernandes, Matheus C., Platt, John D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Society Mechanical Engineers 2015
• Subjects: Blue Hills; Greenland; Ice Sheet; National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4030325

A 2008 report by Das et al. documented the rapid drainage during summer 2006 of a supraglacial lake, of approximately 44×10^6 m^3, into the Greenland ice sheet over a time scale moderately longer than 1 hr. The lake had been instrumented to record the time-dependent fall of water level and the up...