Assessing Supraglacial Water Volume and the Changing Dynamics of the Surface Topography Near the Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland

• Main Author: Adler, John
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2010
• Subjects: Greenland Ice Sheet; Supraglacial Lakes; UAS; UAV; Climate; Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment; Environmental Monitoring; Arctic; Greenland; Changing Lake; albedo; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geog_gradetds/12; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=geog_gradetds

On the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), the effect of the melt season’s changing supraglacial lakes on outlet glacier discharge is not well understood. It is known that many supraglacial lakes drain rapidly during each melt season. While there are conflicting theories of the significance of supraglacial l...