Extreme melt season ice layers reduce firn permeability across Greenland
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Riley Culberg; Dustin M. Schroeder; Winnie Chu
- Source
- Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
- Subject
- Science
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
The long-term impact of extreme surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet is poorly constrained. Here the authors use airborne radar to characterize a subsurface refrozen melt layer that formed following extreme melt in 2012, showing that it likely reduced drainage pathways for subsequent melt.