Evidence of meltwater retention within the Greenland ice sheet

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. K. Rennermalm, L. C. Smith, V. W. Chu, J. E. Box, R. R. Forster, M. R. Van den Broeke, D. Van As, S. E. Moustafa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2013
• Subjects: envir; geo; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1433-2013; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/1433/2013/tc-7-1433-2013.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/b38003f5ab0048ec95f5c5d60b3a3ef9

Greenland ice sheet mass losses have increased in recent decades with more than half of these attributed to surface meltwater runoff. However, the magnitudes of englacial storage, firn retention, internal refreezing and other hydrologic processes that delay or reduce true water export to the global...