Drainage of ice-dammed lakes and glacier retreat - a link

• Main Authors: Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Kjaer, K. H., Rysgaard, Søren, Mortensen, J.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: [0700] CRYOSPHERE; [0720] CRYOSPHERE / Glaciers; [0746] CRYOSPHERE / Lakes; [0758] CRYOSPHERE / Remote sensing; Dammed Lake; Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/drainage-of-icedammed-lakes-and-glacier-retreat--a-link(b5667710-f6c9-4b3a-8a02-e867f75f58e0).html; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFM.C23C0507K

Recent years investigations have suggested that the circulation of warm seawater along the coast of Greenland play an important role for the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet. A key driving force for the circulation is the contribution of meltwater in the inner parts of fjord systems where sur...