Possible impacts of a 1000 km long hypothetical subglacial river valley towards Petermann glacier in northern Greenland

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Chambers, Christopher, Greve, Ralf, Altena, Bas, Lefeuvre, Pierre-Marie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications under license by EGU – European Geosciences Union GmbH 2020
• Subjects: Greenland; Petermann Fjord; glacier; Ice Sheet; Petermann glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/83380; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-86112; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3747-2020

Abstract. Greenland basal topographic data show a segmented valley extending from Petermann Fjord into the centre of Greenland; however, the locations of radar scan lines, used to create the bedrock topography data, indicate that valley segmentation is due to data interpolation. Therefore, as a thou...