Explaining the presence of perennial liquid water bodies in the firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 476-483

  Munneke, P Kuipers ^a   Ligtenberg, S R M ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^a   Van Angelen, J H ^a   Forster, R R ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

firn; greenland; hydrology; melt; surface mass balance

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; MELTING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; FIRN; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ONE DIMENSION; SUBSURFACE LIQUID; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; WINTER SEASONS;

LIQUIDS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AQUIFER; CRYOSPHERE; FIRN; GRIP; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MELTING; PERMAFROST; PORE SPACE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84892644909     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058389     Document Type: Article

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