Ice streams and lakes under the Greenland Ice Sheet

Ice streams and lakes under the Greenland Ice Sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is not a static body of ice but instead a dynamic body of dense, flowing and deforming ice. Snow deposited on the central parts of the ice sheet is gradually compressed to ice that slowly flows towards the ice margin.

Melting Greenland ice sheet cools North Atlantic Ocean

TC - High-resolution imaging of supraglacial hydrological features on the Greenland Ice Sheet with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrument suite

Researchers discover more than 50 lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

Schematic cross section of Greenland ice sheet hydrology from the ice

Why Ice Sheets Matter National Snow and Ice Data Center

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated

Greenland Is Melting

Ice streams and lakes under the Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland ice sheet hydrology: A review - Vena W. Chu, 2014

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated