Ice sheets matter for the global carbon cycle

JL Wadham, JR Hawkings, L Tarasov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas
content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice …

Glacial erosion: status and outlook

RB Alley, KM Cuffey, LK Zoet - Annals of Glaciology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Glacier-erosion rates range across orders of magnitude, and much of this variation cannot
be attributed to basal sliding rates. Subglacial till acts as lubricating 'fault gouge'or 'sawdust' …

Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

LC Andrews, GA Catania, MJ Hoffman, JD Gulley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seasonal acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet is influenced by the dynamic response of
the subglacial hydrologic system to variability in meltwater delivery to the bed, via crevasses …

Future evolution of Greenland's marine‐terminating outlet glaciers

GA Catania, LA Stearns, TA Moon… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has increased over the last two decades in
response to changes in global climate, motivating the scientific community to question how …

Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

G Lamarche-Gagnon, JL Wadham, B Sherwood Lollar… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Ice sheets are currently ignored in global methane budgets,. Although ice sheets have been
proposed to contain large reserves of methane that may contribute to a rise in atmospheric …

[HTML][HTML] Complex Greenland outlet glacier flow captured

A Aschwanden, MA Fahnestock, M Truffer - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate due to increased
surface melt and flow acceleration in outlet glaciers. Quantifying future dynamic …

Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly connected regions of the bed

MJ Hoffman, LC Andrews, SF Price, GA Catania… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Penetration of surface meltwater to the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet each summer causes
an initial increase in ice speed due to elevated basal water pressure, followed by slowdown …

Permafrost degradation

D Streletskiy, O Anisimov, A Vasiliev - Snow and ice-related hazards, risks …, 2015 - Elsevier
Climatic changes over the last 50 years resulted in a decrease of permafrost extent, an
increase of permafrost temperature, and deepening of the active layer in numerous locations …

Distributed acoustic sensing of seismic properties in a borehole drilled on a fast‐flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier

AD Booth, P Christoffersen… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a new technology in which seismic energy is
detected, at high spatial and temporal resolution, using the propagation of laser pulses in a …

Recent advances in our understanding of the role of meltwater in the Greenland Ice Sheet system

PW Nienow, AJ Sole, DA Slater, TR Cowton - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review This review discusses the role that meltwater plays within
the Greenland ice sheet system. The ice sheet's hydrology is important because it affects …