Estimating Ice Discharge at Greenland's Three Largest Outlet Glaciers Using Local Bedrock Uplift

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  • Karina Hansen
  • Martin Truffer
  • Andy Aschwanden
  • Kenneth Mankoff
  • Michael Bevis
  • Angelika Humbert
  • Michiel R. van den Broeke
  • Brice Noël
  • Bjørk, Anders Anker
  • William Colgan
  • Kjær, Kurt H.
  • Surendra Adhikari
  • Valentina Barletta
  • Shfaqat A. Khan

We present a novel method to estimate dynamic ice loss of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers: Jakobshavn Isbræ, Kangerlussuaq Glacier, and Helheim Glacier. We use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations attached to bedrock to measure elastic displacements of the solid Earth caused by dynamic thinning near the glacier terminus. When we compare our results with discharge, we find a time lag between glacier speedup/slowdown and onset of dynamic thinning/thickening. Our results show that dynamic thinning/thickening on Jakobshavn Isbræ occurs 0.87 ± 0.07 years before speedup/slowdown. This implies that using GNSS time series we are able to predict speedup/slowdown of Jakobshavn Isbræ by up to 10.4 months. For Kangerlussuaq Glacier the lag between thinning/thickening and speedup/slowdown is 0.37 ± 0.17 years (4.4 months). Our methodology and results could be important for studies that attempt to model and understand mechanisms controlling short-term dynamic fluctuations of outlet glaciers in Greenland.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere2021GL094252
TidsskriftGeophysical Research Letters
Vol/bind48
Udgave nummer14
Antal sider10
ISSN0094-8276
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
The authors thank Jeffrey T. Freymueller and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments. S. A. Khan acknowledges support from the INTAROS GA No. 727890 funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. B. Noël was funded by the NWO VENI grant VI.Veni.192.019. A. Bjørk was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (Grant CF17‐0529). K. D. Mankoff was funded by PROMICE. M. R. van den Broeke acknowledges support from the Netherlands Earth System Science Centre (NESSC). W. Colgan acknowledges support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (8049‐00003B). A. Aschwanden was funded by NSF grant PLR‐1603799.

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