Periodic outburst floods from an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Grinsted, Aslak, Hvidberg, Christine, Campos, Néstor, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2017
• Subjects: 551.58; Geografía física; 2505.07 Geografía Física; Greenland; Catalina; Dammed Lake; East Greenland; Scoresbysund
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99561; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07960-9

We report evidence of four cycles of outburst floods from Catalina Lake, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland, identified in satellite imagery between 1966–2016. The lake measures 20–25 km2, and lake level drops 130–150 m in each event, corresponding to a water volume of 2.6–3.4 Gt, and a release of...