Greenland ice sheet hydrology: A review

VW Chu - Progress in Physical Geography, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) hydrology is essential for evaluating response of
ice dynamics to a warming climate and future contributions to global sea level rise. Recently …

Polythermal glacier hydrology: a review

TDL Irvine‐Fynn, AJ Hodson, BJ Moorman… - Reviews of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The manner by which meltwater drains through a glacier is critical to ice dynamics, runoff
characteristics, and water quality. However, much of the contemporary knowledge relating to …

Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

LC Andrews, GA Catania, MJ Hoffman, JD Gulley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seasonal acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet is influenced by the dynamic response of
the subglacial hydrologic system to variability in meltwater delivery to the bed, via crevasses …

Extensive liquid meltwater storage in firn within the Greenland ice sheet

RR Forster, JE Box, MR Van Den Broeke, C Miège… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet contributes significantly to present sea level rise.
High meltwater runoff is responsible for half of Greenland's mass loss. Surface melt has …

Future evolution of Greenland's marine‐terminating outlet glaciers

GA Catania, LA Stearns, TA Moon… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has increased over the last two decades in
response to changes in global climate, motivating the scientific community to question how …

Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet

JA MacGregor, MA Fahnestock… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Several decades of ice‐penetrating radar surveys of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
have observed numerous widespread internal reflections. Analysis of this radiostratigraphy …

Short‐term variability in Greenland Ice Sheet motion forced by time‐varying meltwater drainage: Implications for the relationship between subglacial drainage system …

I Bartholomew, P Nienow, A Sole, D Mair… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
High resolution measurements of ice motion along a∼ 120 km transect in a land‐
terminating section of the GrIS reveal short‐term velocity variations (< 1 day), which are …

Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly connected regions of the bed

MJ Hoffman, LC Andrews, SF Price, GA Catania… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Penetration of surface meltwater to the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet each summer causes
an initial increase in ice speed due to elevated basal water pressure, followed by slowdown …

Links between acceleration, melting, and supraglacial lake drainage of the western Greenland Ice Sheet

MJ Hoffman, GA Catania, TA Neumann… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of increasing summer melt on the dynamics and stability of the Greenland Ice
Sheet is not fully understood. Mounting evidence suggests seasonal evolution of subglacial …

Increased variability in Greenland Ice Sheet runoff from satellite observations

T Slater, A Shepherd, M McMillan, A Leeson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased over recent decades affecting
global sea level, regional ocean circulation, and coastal marine ecosystems, and it now …