Greenland ice sheet motion coupled with daily melting in late summer
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Greenland ice sheet motion coupled with daily melting in late summer
[1] We use ground-based and satellite observations to detect large diurnal and longer-period variations in the flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) during late summer that are strongly coupled with changes in its surface hydrology. The diurnal signals are associated with periodic changes in surface melting, and the longer-period signals are associated with the episodic drainage of supra-glaci...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2008gl035758