Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale

A leading hypothesis for the mechanism of fast supraglacial lake drainages is that transient extensional stresses briefly allow crevassing in otherwise compressional ice flow regimes. Lake water can then hydrofracture a crevasse to the base of the ice sheet, and river inputs can maintain this connec...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Poinar, Kristin, Andrews, Lauren C.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1455/2021/