Estimating Ice Discharge at Greenland's Three Largest Outlet Glaciers Using Local Bedrock Uplift

• Main Authors: Hansen, Karina, Truffer, Martin, Aschwanden, Andy, Mankoff, Kenneth, Bevis, Michael, Humbert, Angelika, van den Broeke, Michiel R., Noël, Brice, Bjørk, Anders, Colgan, William, Kjær, Kurt H., Adhikari, Surendra, Barletta, Valentina, Khan, Shfaqat A.
• Other Authors: Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/412754

We present a novel method to estimate dynamic ice loss of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers: Jakobshavn Isbræ, Kangerlussuaq Glacier, and Helheim Glacier. We use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations attached to bedrock to measure elastic displacements of the solid Earth ca...