A new regional high-resolution map of basal and surface topography for the Greenland ice-sheet margin at Paakitsoq, West Greenland

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 50, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 105-111

  Mottram, Ruth ^a   Nielsen, Claus ^a   Ahlstrøm, Andreas P ^a   Reeh, Niels ^a,b   Kristensen, Steen S ^b   Christensen, Erik L ^b   Forsberg, René ^b   Stenseng, Lars ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; MAPPING METHOD; MELTWATER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PAAKITSOQ; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 68949116649     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756409789097577     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ahlstrøm, A.P. 2007. Previous glaciological activities related to hydropowerat Paakitsoq, llulissat, West Greenland. Dan. Grønl. Geol. Unders. Rapp. 25.
2. Ahlstrøm, A.P. and 6 others. 2002. Mapping of a hydrological icesheet drainage basin on the West Greenland ice-sheet margin from ERS-1/-2 SAR interferometry, ice-radar measurement and modelling. Ann. Glaciol., 34, 309-314.
3. Ahlstrøm, A.P., J.J. Mohr, N. Reeh, E.L. Christensen and R.LeB. Hooke. 2005. Controls on the basal water pressure in subglacial channels near the margin of the Greenland ice sheet. J. Claciol., 51(174), 443-450.
4. Ahlstrøm, A.P., R.H. Mottram, C.S. Nielsen, N. Reeh and S.B. Andersen. 2008. Evaluation of the future hydropower potential at Paakitsoq, Ilulissat, West Greenland: technical report. Dan. Grønl. Geol. Unders. Rapp. 38.
5. Björnsson, H. 1982. Drainage basins on Vatnajökull mapped by radio echo soundings. Nord. Hydrol., 13(4), 213-232. (Pubitemid 13266201)
6. Bogorodsky, V.V., C.R. Bentley and P.E. Gudmandsen 1985. Radioglaciology. Dordrecht, etc., D. Reidel Publishing Co.
7. Carr, J.R. 1995. Numerical analysis for the geological sciences. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall.
8. Das, S.B. and 6 others. 2008. Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet during supraglacial lake drainage. Science, 320(5877), 778-781.
9. Hagen, J.O., B. Etzelmüller and A.-M. Nuttall. 2000. Runoff and drainage pattern derived from digital elevation models, Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 147-152.
10. Hempel, L., F. Thyssen, N. Gundestrup, H.B. Clausen and H. Miller. 2000. A comparison of radio-echo sounding data and electrical conductivity of the GRIP ice core. J. Glaciol., 46(154), 369-374. (Pubitemid 32065344)
11. Joughin, I., W. Abdalati and M.A. Fahnestock. 2004. Large fluctuations in speed on Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier. Nature, 432(7017), 608-610. (Pubitemid 39626264)
12. Kitanidis, P.K. 1997. Introduction to geostatistics: applications in hydrogeology. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press
13. Krabili, W. and 12 others. 2004. Greenland Ice Sheet: increased coastal thinning. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(24), L24402. (10.1029/ 2004GL021533.)
14. Price, S.F., A.J. Payne, G.A. Catania and T.A. Neumann. 2008. Seasonal acceleration of inland ice via longitudinal coupling to marginal ice. J. Glaciol., 54(185), 213-219.
15. Shreve, R.L. 1972. Movement of water in glaciers. J. Glaciol., 11(62), 205-214.
16. Thomsen, H.H., L. Thorning and R.J. Braithwaite. 1988. Glacierhydrological conditions on the Inland Ice north-east of Jacobshavn/llulissat, West Greenland. Rapp. Grønl. Geol. Unders. 138.
17. Thorning, L. and E. Hansen. 1987. Electromagnetic reflection survey 1986 at the Inland Ice margin of the Paakitsoq basin, central West Greenland. Rapp. Grøenl. Geol. Unders. 135, 87-95.
18. Thorning, L., H.H. Thomsen and E. Hansen. 1986. Geophysical investigations at the Inland Ice margin of the Paakitsoq basin, central West Greenland. Rapp. Grønl. Geol. Unders. 130, 114-121.
19. Van de Wal, R.S.W, and 6 others. 2008. Large and rapid meltinduced velocity changes in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science, 321(5885), 111-113.
20. Van der Veen, C.J. 2007. Fracture propagation as means of rapidly transferring surface meltwater to the base of glaciers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(1), L01501. (10.1029/2006GL028385.)
21. Zwally, H.J., W. Abdalati, T. Herring, K. Larson, J. Saba and K. Steffen. 2002. Surface melt-induced acceleration of Greenland ice-sheet flow. Science, 297(5579), 218-222.