Investigating Controls on the Formation and Distribution of Wintertime Storage of Water in Supraglacial Lakes

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Derrick Julius Lampkin, Lora Koenig, Casey Joseph, Jason Eric Box
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: supraglacial lakes; lake processes; modeling; remote sensing; Greenland ice sheet; Science; Q; Greenland; Zachariae Isstrøm; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00370; https://doaj.org/article/3d0468d876a94734b9863d82d38160c9

Supraglacial lakes over the Greenland Ice Sheet can demonstrate multi-model drainage states. Lakes can demonstrate incomplete drainage, where residual melt can become buried under ice and snow and survive throughout the winter. We evaluate atmospheric factors that influence the propensity for the fo...