Investigating the Hydrology of the Western Greenland Ice Sheet: Spatiotemporal Variability and Implications on Ice-Dynamics

• Main Author: Mejia, Jessica Z.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2021
• Subjects: Glaciology; Moulins; Subglacial; Lake drainage; Climate; Geology; Geophysics and Seismology; Greenland; Avannarleq; Sermeq Avannarleq; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9598; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10795&context=etd

Since the 1990's the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass at an accelerating rate in response to climatic warming and is currently the largest terrestrial contributor to sea-level rise. While ice sheet models agree the GrIS will continue losing mass throughout the century, there are...