Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale
<p>A leading hypothesis for the mechanism of fast supraglacial lake drainages is that transient extensional stresses briefly allow crevassing in otherwise compressional ice flow regimes. Lake water can then hydrofracture a crevasse to the base of the ice sheet, and river inputs can maintain t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2021-03-01
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Series: | The Cryosphere |
Online Access: | https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1455/2021/tc-15-1455-2021.pdf |