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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021
Research article
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24 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2021

Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale

Kristin Poinar and Lauren C. Andrews

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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 precursor strain-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.