Evolution of supra-glacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Sundal, A.V., Shepherd, A., Nienow, P., Hanna, E., Palmer, S., Huybrechts, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: F890 Geographical and Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Greenland; Glacial Lake; Weaver; Marquis; Saba; Behn; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/26045/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2009.05.018

We used 268 cloud-free Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images from 2003 and 2005-2007 to study the seasonal evolution of supra-glacial lakes in three different regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Lake area estimates were obtained by developing an automated classification method...