Winter drainage of surface lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery ...

• Main Authors: Benedek, CL, Willis, IC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2021
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 3705 Geology; 14 Life Below Water; Greenland; Rapid Lake; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.66632; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/319511

Abstract. Surface lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet play a key role in its surface mass balance, hydrology and biogeochemistry. They often drain rapidly in the summer via hydrofracture, which delivers lake water to the ice sheet base over timescales of hours to days and then can allow meltwater to re...