Ice acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades

A Løkkegaard, W Colgan, K Hansen… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
In the past two decades, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated, partly due
to the speedup of glaciers. However, uncertainty in speed derived from satellite products …

Historical snow and ice temperature observations document the recent warming of the Greenland ice sheet

B Vandecrux, RS Fausto, JE Box, F Covi… - The Cryosphere …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
The surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet has been increasing over the last decades
due to Arctic atmospheric warming. Surface melt depends on the energy balance which …

[HTML][HTML] Recent warming trends of the Greenland ice sheet documented by historical firn and ice temperature observations and machine learning

B Vandecrux, RS Fausto, JE Box, F Covi, R Hock… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet has been increasing in intensity and extent over the
last decades due to Arctic atmospheric warming. Surface melt depends on the surface …

Failure strength of glacier ice inferred from Greenland crevasses

A Grinsted, NM Rathmann, R Mottram… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice fractures when subject to stress that exceeds the material failure strength. Previous
studies have found that a von Mises failure criterion, which places a bound on the second …

Evaluating different geothermal heat flow maps as basal boundary conditions during spin up of the Greenland ice sheet

T Zhang, W Colgan, A Wansing… - The Cryosphere …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
There is currently poor scientific agreement whether the ice-bed interface is frozen or
thawed beneath approximately one-third of the Greenland ice sheet. This disagreement in …

Statistical appraisal of geothermal heat flow observations in the Arctic

J Freienstein, W Szwillus, A Wansing, J Ebbing - Solid Earth, 2024 - se.copernicus.org
Geothermal heat flow is an important boundary condition for ice sheets, affecting, for
example, basal melt rates, but for ice-covered regions, we only have sparse heat flow …