Greenland supraglacial lake drainages triggered by hydrologically induced basal slip

Laura A. Stevens (), Mark D. Behn, Jeffrey J. McGuire, Sarah B. Das, Ian Joughin, Thomas Herring, David E. Shean and Matt A. King
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Laura A. Stevens: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Mark D. Behn: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jeffrey J. McGuire: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sarah B. Das: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ian Joughin: Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Thomas Herring: Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David E. Shean: Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Matt A. King: School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania

Nature, 2015, vol. 522, issue 7554, 73-76

Abstract: A dense network of GPS observations shows that rapid lake drainage events on the western Greenland Ice Sheet are preceded by period of ice-sheet uplift and/or enhanced basal slip.

Date: 2015
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