Evolution of supra-glacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: A.V. Sundal, A. Shepherd, P. Nienow, Edward Hanna, S. Palmer, P. Huybrechts
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: F890 - Physical geographical sciences not elsewhere classified; Annual runoff; Arctic; Automated classification; Cambridge; Cambridge university; Climate change; Clupeidae; Collins; Fracture propagation; Glacial geology; glacial lake; Glacial lakes; Glaciers; Global climate projections; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet; Ice; Ice sheet; identification method; Image analysis; Image classification; Intergovernmental panel on climate changes; Lake areas; Lakes; landform evolution; melt; Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; MODIS; New York; Physical science; Positive correlations; reflectance; Runoff; Season temperature; Spectrometers; Supra-glacial lakes; Surface reflectance; Time periods; United kingdom; Working groups; Behn; Glacial Lake; Marquis; Weaver; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Evolution_of_supra-glacial_lakes_across_the_Greenland_Ice_Sheet/24361834

We used 268 cloud-free Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images from 2003 and 2005-2007 to study the seasonal evolution of supra-glacial lakes in three different regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Lake area estimates were obtained by developing an automated classification method...