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SUBMITTER: Xie S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642183 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190719 1
Iceberg calving is a major contributor to Greenland's ice mass loss. Pro-glacial mélange (a mixture of sea ice, icebergs, and snow) may be tightly packed in the long, narrow fjords that front many marine-terminating glaciers and can reduce calving by buttressing. However, data limitations have hampered a quantitative understanding. We develop a new radar-based approach to estimate time-varying elevations near the mélange-glacier interface, generating a factor of three or more improvement in elev ...[more]