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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale
Department of Geology and the Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW) Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
Lauren C. Andrews
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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This study addresses Greenland supraglacial lake drainages. We analyze ice deformation associated with lake drainages over 18 summers to assess whether
precursorstrain-rate events consistently precede lake drainages. We find that currently available remote sensing data products cannot resolve these events, and thus we cannot predict future lake drainages. Thus, future avenues for evaluating this hypothesis will require major field-based GPS or photogrammetry efforts.
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