Improved Monitoring of Subglacial Lake Activity in Greenland

• Main Authors: Sandberg Sørensen, Louise, Bahbah, Rasmus, Simonsen, Sebastian B., Havelund Andersen, Natalia, Bowling, Jade, Gourmelen, Noel, Horton, Alex, Karlsson, Nanna B., Leeson, Amber, Maddalena, Jennifer, McMillan, Malcolm, Solgaard, Anne Munck, Wessel, Birgit
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Flade Isblink; Greenland; The Antarctic; Antarc*; greenlandic; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-263; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-263/

Subglacial lakes form beneath ice sheets and ice caps if water is available, and if bedrock and surface topography are able to retain the water. On a regional scale, the lakes modulate the timing and rate of freshwater flow through the subglacial system to the ocean by acting as reservoirs. More tha...