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05 Dec 2017
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| 05 Dec 2017
Satellite-derived submarine melt rates and mass balance (2011–2015) for Greenland's largest remaining ice tongues
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Fiammetta Straneo
Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
now at: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
Patrick Heimbach
Jackson School of Geosciences and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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Short summary
We estimate submarine melt rates from ice tongues in northern Greenland using WorldView satellite imagery. At Ryder Glacier, melt is strongly concentrated around regions where subglacier channels likely enter the fjord. At the 79 North Glacier, we find a large volume imbalance in which melting removes a greater quantity of ice than is replaced by inflow over the grounding line. This leads us to suggest that a reduction in the spatial extent of the ice tongue is possible over the coming decade.
We estimate submarine melt rates from ice tongues in northern Greenland using WorldView...
