Controls on rapid supraglacial lake drainage in West Greenland: an Exploratory Data Analysis approach

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: ANDREW G. WILLIAMSON, IAN C. WILLIS, NEIL S. ARNOLD, ALISON F. BANWELL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: Arctic glaciology; melt - surface; remote sensing; snow/ice surface processes; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Arctic; Greenland; Rapid Lake; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2018.8; https://doaj.org/article/5c706cf9672a47b3919a23be528d5d9e

The controls on rapid surface lake drainage on the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) remain uncertain, making it challenging to incorporate lake drainage into models of GrIS hydrology, and so to determine the ice-dynamic impact of meltwater reaching the ice-sheet bed. Here, we first use a lake area and vol...