Evidence of meltwater retention within the Greenland ice sheet

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Rennermalm, A. K., Smith, L. C., Chu, V. W., Box, J. E., Forster, R. R., Broeke, M. R., As, D., Moustafa, S. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1433-2013; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1433/2013/

Greenland ice sheet mass losses have increased in recent decades with more than half of these attributed to surface meltwater runoff. However, the magnitudes of englacial storage, firn retention, internal refreezing and other hydrologic processes that delay or reduce true water export to the global...