Supraglacial lake drainage at a fast-flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier.

• Main Authors: Chudley, Thomas R, Christoffersen, Poul, Doyle, Samuel H, Bougamont, Marion, Schoonman, Charlotte M, Hubbard, Bryn, James, Mike R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; glaciology; hydrology; ice sheets; lakes; Rapid Lake; glacier; greenlandic; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/299570; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.46643

Supraglacial lake drainage events influence Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics on hourly to interannual timescales. However, direct observations are rare, and, to date, no in situ studies exist from fast-flowing sectors of the ice sheet. Here, we present observations of a rapid lake drainage event at Stor...