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Research article
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13 Jul 2015
Research article |
| 13 Jul 2015
Wintertime storage of water in buried supraglacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
now at: National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
D. J. Lampkin
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
L. N. Montgomery
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
S. L. Hamilton
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA
J. B. Turrin
Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
C. A. Joseph
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
S. E. Moutsafa
Department of Geography, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
B. Panzer
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
K. A. Casey
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
J. D. Paden
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
C. Leuschen
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
P. Gogineni
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Short summary
The Greenland Ice Sheet is storing meltwater through the winter season just below its surface in buried supraglacial lakes. Airborne radar from Operation IceBridge between 2009 and 2012 was used to detect buried lakes, distributed extensively around the margin of the ice sheet. The volume of retained water in the buried lakes is likely insignificant compared to the total mass loss from the ice sheet but has important implications for ice temperatures.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is storing meltwater through the winter season just below its surface in...
