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ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY
卷 59, 期 76, 页码 56-65出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/aog.2018.9
关键词
Arctic glaciology; glacier hydrology; ice-shelf break-up; ice shelves
资金
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship [NNX15AN44H]
- Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Fellowship
- U.S. National Science Foundation [PLR-1443126]
- NASA [NNX15AN44H, 800309] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Supraglacial lakes are known to trigger Antarctic ice-shelf instability and break-up. However, to date, no study has focused on lakes on Greenland's floating termini. Here, we apply lake boundary/area and depth algorithms to Landsat 8 imagery to analyse the inter- and intraseasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes across Petermann Glacier's (81 degrees N) floating tongue from 2014 to 2016, while also comparing these lakes to those on the grounded ice. Lakes start to fill in June and quickly peak in total number, volume and area in late June/early July in response to increases in air temperatures. However, through July and August, total lake number, volume and area all decline, despite sustained high temperatures. These observations may be explained by the transportation of meltwater into the ocean by a river, and by lake drainage events on the floating tongue. Further, as mean lake depth remains relatively constant during this time, we suggest that a large proportion of the lakes that drain, do so completely, likely by rapid hydrofracture. The mean areas of lakes on the tongue are only similar to 20% of those on the grounded ice and exhibit lower variability in maximum and mean depth, differences likely attributable to the contrasting formation processes of lakes in each environment.
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