Over-winter persistence of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet: results and insights from a new model

We present a newly developed 1-D numerical energy-balance and phase transition supraglacial lake model: GlacierLake. GlacierLake incorporates snowfall, in situ snow and ice melt, incoming water from the surrounding catchment, ice lid formation, basal freeze-up and thermal stratification. Snow cover...

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Main Authors: Robert Law, Neil Arnold, Corinne Benedek, Marco Tedesco, Alison Banwell, Ian Willis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143020000076/type/journal_article