Supraglacial rivers on the northwest Greenland Ice Sheet, Devon Ice Cap, and Barnes Ice Cap mapped using Sentinel-2 imagery

• Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• Main Authors: Yang, K., Smith, L., Sole, A., Livingstone, S.J., Cheng, X., Chen, Z., Li, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Devon Ice Cap; Barnes Ice Cap; Inglefield Land; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Inglefield land
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/141238/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/141238/1/2ndREVISION_kangyang_IJAEOG_manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2019.01.008

Supraglacial rivers set efficacy and time lags by which surface meltwater is routed to the englacial, subglacial, and proglacial portions of ice masses. However, these hydrologic features remain poorly studied mainly because they are too narrow (typically <30 m) to be reliably delineated in conve...