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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
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
N. Humphrey
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
J. Harper
Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA
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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.
On the Greenland Ice Sheet, a significant quantity of surface melt water refreezes after...
