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

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Law, Robert, Christoffersen, Poul, Hubbard, Bryn, Doyle, Samuel H., Chudley, Thomas R., Schoonman, Charlotte M., Bougamont, Marion, des Tombe, Bas, Schilperoort, Bart, Kechavarzi, Cedric, Booth, Adam, Young, Tun Jan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021
• Subjects: Research Articles; Greenland; Kujalleq; glacier; greenlandic; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121432/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990322; https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe7136

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...