Quantifying Tidewater Glacier-Fjord Environments in the Rapidly Changing Regions of West and South Greenland

• Main Author: Baratta, Sydney
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2023
• Subjects: Fjord Circulation; Tidewater Glacier; Greenland; Icebergs; Sediment Plumes; Climate; Glaciology; Oceanography; Ilulissat; glacier; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3921; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/4965/viewcontent/M_Baratta_Sydney_Dec23.pdf

The Greenland Ice Sheet has undergone rapid mass loss over the last four decades, primarily through solid and liquid discharge at marine-terminating outlet glaciers. The acceleration of these glaciers is in part due to the increase in temperature of ocean water in contact with the glacier terminus....