Bathymetry in Petermann fjord from Operation IceBridge aerogravity ...
Petermann Glacier is a major glacier in northern Greenland, maintaining one of the few remaining floating ice tongues in Greenland. Monitoring programs, such as NASA’s Operation IceBridge have surveyed Petermann Glacier over several decades and have found it to be stable in terms of mass balance, ve...
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ftdatacite:10.7916/d8-2dct-4293 2024-10-13T14:07:25+00:00 Bathymetry in Petermann fjord from Operation IceBridge aerogravity ... Tinto, Kirsteen J. Bell, Robin E. Cochran, James R. Munchow, Andreas 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293 unknown Columbia University https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.009 Geophysics FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences Marine geophysics Glaciers--Measurement Fjords Bathymetric maps Text article-journal Articles ScholarlyArticle 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-2dct-429310.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.009 2024-10-01T12:07:49Z Petermann Glacier is a major glacier in northern Greenland, maintaining one of the few remaining floating ice tongues in Greenland. Monitoring programs, such as NASA’s Operation IceBridge have surveyed Petermann Glacier over several decades and have found it to be stable in terms of mass balance, velocity and grounding-line position. The future vulnerability of this large glacier to changing ocean temperatures and climate depends on the ocean–ice interactions beneath its floating tongue. These cannot currently be predicted due to a lack of knowledge of the bathymetry underneath the ice tongue. Here we use aerogravity data from Operation IceBridge, together with airborne radar and laser data and shipborne bathymetry-soundings to model the bathymetry beneath the Petermann ice tongue. We find a basement-cored inner sill at 540–610 m depth that results in a water cavity with minimum thickness of 400 m about 25 km from the grounding line. The sill is coincident with the location of the melt rate minimum. Seaward ... Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Petermann Fjord Petermann glacier DataCite Greenland Petermann Fjord ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,81.167,81.167) |
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Petermann Glacier is a major glacier in northern Greenland, maintaining one of the few remaining floating ice tongues in Greenland. Monitoring programs, such as NASA’s Operation IceBridge have surveyed Petermann Glacier over several decades and have found it to be stable in terms of mass balance, velocity and grounding-line position. The future vulnerability of this large glacier to changing ocean temperatures and climate depends on the ocean–ice interactions beneath its floating tongue. These cannot currently be predicted due to a lack of knowledge of the bathymetry underneath the ice tongue. Here we use aerogravity data from Operation IceBridge, together with airborne radar and laser data and shipborne bathymetry-soundings to model the bathymetry beneath the Petermann ice tongue. We find a basement-cored inner sill at 540–610 m depth that results in a water cavity with minimum thickness of 400 m about 25 km from the grounding line. The sill is coincident with the location of the melt rate minimum. Seaward ... |
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Tinto, Kirsteen J. Bell, Robin E. Cochran, James R. Munchow, Andreas |
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Tinto, Kirsteen J. Bell, Robin E. Cochran, James R. Munchow, Andreas |
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Tinto, Kirsteen J. |
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Bathymetry in Petermann fjord from Operation IceBridge aerogravity ... |
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Bathymetry in Petermann fjord from Operation IceBridge aerogravity ... |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-2dct-4293 |
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