Seasonal speedup along the western flank of the Greenland ice sheet

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5877, 2008, Pages 781-783

  Joughin, Ian ^a   Das, Sarah B ^b   King, Matt A ^c   Smith, Ben E ^a   Howat, Ian M ^a,d   Moon, Twila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

GLACIER FLOW; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 46449127242     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153288     Document Type: Article

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25. Support was provided jointly by NSF and NASA through ARC-0520382 (I.J.), ARC-0520077/ARC-0531345 (S.B.D., I.M.H., and T.M), and NNG06GE5SG (B.E.S.). A National Environment Research Council (UK) Research Fellowship supported M.A.K. Early conversations with R. B. Alley helped initiate this project. SAR data were acquired by the Canadian Space Agency and distributed by the Alaska Satellite Facility. We acknowledge VECO (logistics support), UNAVCO (GPS), and PASSCAL (seismometers). Comments by the two anonymous reviewers led to substantial improvements in the manuscript.