A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm for multispectral imagery

• Main Authors: Morriss, Blaine F., Hawley, Robert L., Chipman, J.W., Andrews, L.C., Catania, Ginny A., Hoffman, M.J., Lüthi, M.P., Neumann, Thomas A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2013
• Subjects: Greenland; Peak Lake; glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/78369; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000078369

The rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes introduces large pulses of meltwater to the subglacial environment and creates moulins, surface-to-bed conduits for future melt. Introduction of water to the subglacial system has been shown to affect ice flow, and modeling suggests that variability in water...