Daily variations in Western Greenland slush limits, 2000–2021

The marginal areas of the Greenland ice sheet develop streams and lakes each summer, documenting that surface runoff of meltwater is a major component of ice-sheet mass balance. Here we map the slush limit, a proxy for the extent of surface runoff, using daily MODIS data for the years 2000–2021. We...

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Main Authors: Horst Machguth, Andrew J. Tedstone, Enrico Mattea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-02-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S002214302200065X/type/journal_article