Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland’s Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat

• Main Authors: Porter, David F., Tinto, Kirsteen J., Boghosian, Alexandra, Czatho, Beata, Bell, Robin E., Cochran, James R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2018
• Subjects: Geophysics; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Marine geophysics; Glaciology; Glaciers > Measurement; Ocean temperature; Greenland; Sund; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; glacier; Ice Sheet; Thule
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-4rwm-yh75; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-4rwm-yh75

Although the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass as a whole, patterns of change on both local and regional scales are complex. Spatial statistics reveal large spatial variability of dynamic thinning rates of Greenland’s marine-terminating glaciers between 2003 and 2009; only 18% of glacier thinning r...