Firn aquifer water discharges into crevasses across Southeast Greenland
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DOI: 10.1017/jog.2023.25
Abstract: In Southeast Greenland, summer melt and high winter snowfall rates give rise to firn aquifers: vast stores of meltwater buried beneath the ice-sheet surface. Previous detailed studies of a single Greenland firn aquifer site suggest… read more here.
Keywords: firn; glaciology; water; firn aquifer ... See more keywords
Mapping Firn Saturation Over Greenland Using NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite
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DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2022.3154968
Abstract: Mapping the spatial extent of recently identified englacial hydrological features (i.e., ice slabs and perennial firn aquifers) formed by meters-thick water-saturated firn layers over the percolation facies of the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band microwave… read more here.
Keywords: firn saturation; firn; water saturated; greenland ... See more keywords