The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) faces accelerated melting under a warming climate. This also affects the largest marine-terminating outlet glacier of Northeast Stream (NEGIS), Nioghalvfjerdsbræ (79 North Glacier, 79NG). In cavity below its floating ice tongue, heat inflowing warm and saline Atlantic Water melts at base, colder fresher outflow is exported toward shelf break presumably south with ...

Major negative oxygen isotopic anomalies in planktonic foraminifera are associated with deep-sea anoxic mud layers (sapropels) deposited 9000 and 80,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean. The isotopic depletion in surface-dwelling foraminifera is significantly greater than in mesopelagic foraminifera. This difference in isotopic response suggests that surface-water salinities were drastica...

Abstract The slipperiness of ice is well known while, for skating, its mechanism still needs further investigation, where the complex interactions including thermal conduction skate—meltwater—ice system, ploughing and frictional melting to friction force are unclear. This study presents a theoretical framework simplified analytical solution unveil when curved skate sliding on ice. theory valida...

Supraglacial channel networks link time varying melt production and meltwater routing on temperate glaciers. Such channel networks often include components of both surface transport in streams and subsurface porous flow through near-surface ice, firn or snowpack. Although subsurface transport if present will likely control network transport efficacy, it is the most poorly characterized componen...

Planktonic and benthic dO records adjacent to the runoff outlets of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) indicate that the LIS contributed to the abrupt w20 m rise in sea level w14.6 ka, Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A). However, the magnitude of the LIS contribution still remains unresolved. Here, I use a freshwater runoff–ocean mixing model to calculate the LIS meltwater required to explain the decrease...

On the Greenland ice sheet, a significant quantity of surface meltwater refreezes within the firn, creating uncertainty in surface mass balance estimates. This refreezing has the potential to buffer seasonal runoff to future increases in melting, but direct measurement of the process remains difficult. We present a method for quantifying refreezing at point locations using in situ firn temperat...

Growing interest in supraglacial channels, coupled with the increasing availability of high-resolution remotely sensed imagery of glacier surfaces, motivates the development and testing of new approaches to delineating surface meltwater channels. We utilized a high-resolution (2 m) digital elevation model of parts of the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and retention of visually...