Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland ice sheet surface.

• Main Authors: Smith, Laurence C, Yang, Kang, Pitcher, Lincoln H, Overstreet, Brandon T, Chu, Vena W, Rennermalm, Åsa K, Ryan, Jonathan C, Cooper, Matthew G, Gleason, Colin J, Tedesco, Marco, Jeyaratnam, Jeyavinoth, van As, Dirk, van den Broeke, Michiel R, van de Berg, Willem Jan, Noël, Brice, Langen, Peter L, Cullather, Richard I, Zhao, Bin, Willis, Michael J, Hubbard, Alun, Box, Jason E, Jenner, Brittany A, Behar, Alberto E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2017
• Subjects: climate models; fluvial catchment; ice sheet meltwater runoff; surface mass balance; surface water hydrology; Greenland; Merra; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jr4d0tr

Meltwater runoff from the Greenland ice sheet surface influences surface mass balance (SMB), ice dynamics, and global sea level rise, but is estimated with climate models and thus difficult to validate. We present a way to measure ice surface runoff directly, from hourly in situ supraglacial river d...