Characteristics of ocean waters reaching Greenland's glaciers

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Straneo, F, Sutherland, D, Holland, D, Gladish, C, Hamilton, G, Johnson, H, Rignot, E, Xu, Y, Koppes, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3189/2012AoG60A059; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0319b1dc-a338-44f5-9d3d-bc7e35209981

Interaction of Greenland's marine-terminating glaciers with the ocean has emerged as a key term in the ice-sheet mass balance and a plausible trigger for their recent acceleration. Our knowledge of the dynamics, however, is limited by scarcity of ocean measurements at the glacier/ocean boundary...