An Intensive Observation of Calving at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland.

ABSTRACT: Calving of glacial ice into the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet is an important component of global sea level rise. The calving process itself is relatively poorly observed, understood, and modeled; as such, it represents a bottleneck in improving future global sea level estimates in climate models. We organized a pilot project to observe the calving process at Helheim Glacier in East Greenland in an effort to better understand it. During an intensive one-week survey, we deployed a suite of instrumentation including a terrestrial radar interferometer, GPS receivers, seismometers, tsunameters, and an automated weather station. This effort captured a calving process and measured various glaciological, oceanographic, and atmospheric parameters before, during, and after the event. One outco

SUBMITTER: Holland DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430530 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature