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Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3119-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3119-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
Research article
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06 Jul 2021
Research article |  | 06 Jul 2021

Indication of high basal melting at the EastGRIP drill site on the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

Ole Zeising and Angelika Humbert

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Greenland’s largest ice stream – the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) – extends far into the interior of the ice sheet. Basal meltwater acts as a lubricant for glaciers and sustains sliding. Hence, observations of basal melt rates are of high interest. We performed two time series of precise ground-based radar measurements in the upstream region of NEGIS and found high melt rates of 0.19 ± 0.04 m per year.
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