Quantifying meltwater refreezing along a transect of sites on the Greenland ice sheet

Cox, C.; Humphrey, N.; Harper, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-691-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-691-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-691-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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14 Apr 2015

Research article |

| 14 Apr 2015

Quantifying meltwater refreezing along a transect of sites on the Greenland ice sheet

C. Cox, N. Humphrey, and J. Harper

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2145: 'Referee Review of: Quantifying meltwater refreezing along a transect of sites on the Greenland Icesheet', Evan Burgess, 25 Oct 2014
RC C2335: 'Quantifying meltwater refreezing along a transect of sites on the Greenland Icesheet C.R. Cox, N.F. Humphrey, and J.T. Harper', Elizabeth Morris, 12 Nov 2014
RC C2349: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 17 Nov 2014
RC C2356: 'Comment on "Quantifying meltwater refreezing along a transect of sites on Greenland Icesheet', Anonymous Referee #4, 18 Nov 2014
AC C3092: 'Response to E. Burgess Review', Chris Cox, 17 Feb 2015
AC C3105: 'Response to E. Morris Review', Chris Cox, 17 Feb 2015
AC C3126: 'Response to Anonymous Review 1', Chris Cox, 17 Feb 2015
AC C3142: 'Response to Anonymous Review 2', Chris Cox, 17 Feb 2015
- AC C3158: 'Figure 5', Chris Cox, 19 Feb 2015

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Chris Cox on behalf of the Authors (17 Mar 2015)

ED: Publish as is (25 Mar 2015) by Ian M. Howat

AR by Chris Cox on behalf of the Authors (26 Mar 2015)

Short summary

On the Greenland Ice Sheet, a significant quantity of surface melt water refreezes after infiltrating into the cold underlying firn. This paper presents a new method for estimating the amount of water refreezing using temperature measurements. The method is applied to temperature data from a transect of 11 sites and the results provide some of the first measurement-based estimates of refreezing quantities which can be used to improve modeling and better understand the refreezing process.