A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet
International audience The Greenland ice sheet has been one of the largest sources of sea-level rise since the early 2000s. However, basal melt has not been included explicitly in assessments of ice-sheet mass loss so far. Here, we present the first estimate of the total and regional basal melt prod...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-03382448v1 2023-05-15T15:04:20+02:00 A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet Karlsson, Nanna, Solgaard, Anne, Mankoff, Kenneth, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien Macgregor, Joseph, Box, Jason, Citterio, Michele Colgan, William, Larsen, Signe, Kjeldsen, Kristian, Korsgaard, Niels, Benn, Douglas, Hewitt, Ian, Fausto, Robert Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ) Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) 2021-06-08 https://hal.science/hal-03382448 https://hal.science/hal-03382448/document https://hal.science/hal-03382448/file/Karlsson%20et%20al.%20-%202021%20-%20A%20first%20constraint%20on%20basal%20melt-water%20production%20.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z hal-03382448 https://hal.science/hal-03382448 https://hal.science/hal-03382448/document https://hal.science/hal-03382448/file/Karlsson%20et%20al.%20-%202021%20-%20A%20first%20constraint%20on%20basal%20melt-water%20production%20.pdf doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.science/hal-03382448 Nature Communications, 2021, 12, ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z⟩ [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z 2023-03-01T02:13:14Z International audience The Greenland ice sheet has been one of the largest sources of sea-level rise since the early 2000s. However, basal melt has not been included explicitly in assessments of ice-sheet mass loss so far. Here, we present the first estimate of the total and regional basal melt produced by the ice sheet and the recent change in basal melt through time. We find that the ice sheet's present basal melt production is 21.4 +4.4/−4.0 Gt per year, and that melt generated by basal friction is responsible for about half of this volume. We estimate that basal melting has increased by 2.9 ± 5.2 Gt during the first decade of the 2000s. As the Arctic warms, we anticipate that basal melt will continue to increase due to faster ice flow and more surface melting thus compounding current mass loss trends, enhancing solid ice discharge, and modifying fjord circulation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Ice Sheet Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Arctic Greenland Nature Communications 12 1 |
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International audience The Greenland ice sheet has been one of the largest sources of sea-level rise since the early 2000s. However, basal melt has not been included explicitly in assessments of ice-sheet mass loss so far. Here, we present the first estimate of the total and regional basal melt produced by the ice sheet and the recent change in basal melt through time. We find that the ice sheet's present basal melt production is 21.4 +4.4/−4.0 Gt per year, and that melt generated by basal friction is responsible for about half of this volume. We estimate that basal melting has increased by 2.9 ± 5.2 Gt during the first decade of the 2000s. As the Arctic warms, we anticipate that basal melt will continue to increase due to faster ice flow and more surface melting thus compounding current mass loss trends, enhancing solid ice discharge, and modifying fjord circulation. |
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Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ) Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) |
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Karlsson, Nanna, Solgaard, Anne, Mankoff, Kenneth, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien Macgregor, Joseph, Box, Jason, Citterio, Michele Colgan, William, Larsen, Signe, Kjeldsen, Kristian, Korsgaard, Niels, Benn, Douglas, Hewitt, Ian, Fausto, Robert |
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A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet |
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A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet |
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A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet |
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A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet |
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A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet |
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