Centennial response of Greenland’s three largest outlet glaciers

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Khan, Shfaqat A., Bjørk, Anders A., Bamber, Jonathan L., Morlighem, Mathieu, Bevis, Michael, Kjær, Kurt H., Mouginot, Jérémie, Løkkegaard, Anja, Holland, David M., Aschwanden, Andy, Zhang, Bao, Helm, Veit, Korsgaard, Niels J., Colgan, William, Larsen, Nicolaj K., Liu, Lin, Hansen, Karina, Barletta, Valentina, Dahl-Jensen, Trine S., Søndergaard, Anne Sofie, Csatho, Beata M., Sasgen, Ingo, Box, Jason, Schenk, Toni
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672108/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33203883; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19580-5

The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest land ice contributor to sea level rise. This will continue in the future but at an uncertain rate and observational estimates are limited to the last few decades. Understanding the long-term glacier response to external forcing is key to improving projections....