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

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: David F. Porter, Kirsty J. Tinto, Alexandra L. Boghosian, Beata M. Csatho, Robin E. Bell, James R. Cochran
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
• Subjects: ice thickness measurements; ice-ocean interactions; ice-sheet mass balance; glacier geophysics; Arctic glaciology; spatial statistics; Science; Q; Arctic; Greenland; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Sund; glacier; Ice Sheet; Thule
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00090; https://doaj.org/article/dd1da681f54442649ec647b64a22c2a4

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 thinn...