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

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Law, Robert (author), Christoffersen, Poul (author), Hubbard, Bryn (author), Doyle, Samuel H. (author), Chudley, Thomas R. (author), Schoonman, Charlotte M. (author), Bougamont, Marion (author), des Tombe, B.F. (author), Schilperoort, B. (author), Kechavarzi, Cedric (author), Booth, Adam (author), Young, Tun Jan (author)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Kujalleq; glacier; greenlandic; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0505980b-ec35-4fff-977a-2bb8cb694677; 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...