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Subglacial lake activity beneath the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Yubin Fan
Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
and Technology, Key Laboratory for Land Satellite Remote Sensing
Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources, School of Geography and Ocean
Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and
Industrialization, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing,
210023, China
Chang-Qing Ke
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
and Technology, Key Laboratory for Land Satellite Remote Sensing
Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources, School of Geography and Ocean
Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and
Industrialization, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing,
210023, China
Xiaoyi Shen
Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
and Technology, Key Laboratory for Land Satellite Remote Sensing
Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources, School of Geography and Ocean
Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and
Industrialization, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing,
210023, China
Yao Xiao
Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
and Technology, Key Laboratory for Land Satellite Remote Sensing
Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources, School of Geography and Ocean
Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and
Industrialization, Nanjing, 210023, China
Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing,
210023, China
Stephen J. Livingstone
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10
2TN, UK
Andrew J. Sole
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10
2TN, UK
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Short summary
We used the new-generation ICESat-2 altimeter to detect and monitor active subglacial lakes in unprecedented spatiotemporal detail. We created a new inventory of 18 active subglacial lakes as well as their elevation and volume changes during 2019–2020, which provides an improved understanding of how the Greenland subglacial water system operates and how these lakes are fed by water from the ice surface.
We used the new-generation ICESat-2 altimeter to detect and monitor active subglacial lakes in...
