Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing

• Main Authors: Law, R, Christoffersen, P, Hubbard, B, Doyle, SH, Chudley, TR, Schoonman, CM, Bougamont, M, des Tombe, B, Schilperoort, B, Kechavarzi, C, Booth, A, Young, TJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Kujalleq; glacier; greenlandic; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/174201/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/174201/3/eabe7136.full.pdf

Measurements of ice temperature provide crucial constraints on ice viscosity and the thermodynamic processes occurring within a glacier. However, such measurements are presently limited by a small number of relatively coarse-spatial-resolution borehole records, especially for ice sheets. Here, we ad...