Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing.

• Main Authors: Law, Robert, Christoffersen, Poul, Hubbard, Bryn, Doyle, Samuel H, Chudley, Thomas R, Schoonman, Charlotte M, Bougamont, Marion, des Tombe, Bas, Schilperoort, Bart, Kechavarzi, Cedric, Booth, Adam, Young, Tun Jan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 3705 Geology; Greenland; Kujalleq; glacier; greenlandic; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/322796; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.70252

Measurements of ice temperature provide crucial constraints on ice viscosity and the thermodynamic processes occurring within a glacier. However, such measurements are presently limited by a small number of relatively coarse-spatial-resolution borehole records, especially for ice sheets. Here, we ad...