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CRYOSPHERE
卷 6, 期 6, 页码 1435-1443出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-1435-2012
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- Alaska Climate Science Center
- United States Geological Survey [G10AC00588]
- NASA [NNX08AJ37G]
- NSF [ARC-1107607]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0732735] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [NNX08AJ37G, 100619] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Lakes are abundant throughout the pan-Arctic region. For many of these lakes ice cover lasts for up to two thirds of the year. The frozen cover allows human access to these lakes, which are therefore used for many subsistence and recreational activities, including water harvesting, fishing, and skiing. Safe traveling condition onto lakes may be compromised, however, when, after significant snowfall, the weight of the snow acts on the ice and causes liquid water to spill through weak spots and overflow at the snow-ice interface. Since visual detection of subsnow slush is almost impossible our understanding on overflow processes is still very limited and geophysical methods that allow water and slush detection are desirable. In this study we demonstrate that a commercially available, lightweight 1 GHz, ground penetrating radar system can detect and map extent and intensity of overflow. The strength of radar reflections from wet snow-ice interfaces are at least twice as much in strength than returns from dry snow-ice interface. The presence of overflow also affects the quality of radar returns from the base of the lake ice. During dry conditions we were able to profile ice thickness of up to 1 m, conversely, we did not retrieve any ice-water returns in areas affected by overflow.
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