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Title: Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland

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ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM USA
  2. Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM USA
  3. Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD USA
  4. Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD USA
  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula MT USA
  6. Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX USA, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX USA
  7. Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich Switzerland
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
OSTI Identifier:
1417225
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1417227; OSTI ID: 1417820; OSTI ID: 1421629
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-28283; SAND2018-0455J
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; NA0003525
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Geophysical Research Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; Earth Sciences; Mathematics

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Hoffman, Matthew J., Perego, Mauro, Andrews, Lauren C., Price, Stephen F., Neumann, Thomas A., Johnson, Jesse V., Catania, Ginny, and Lüthi, Martin P. Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/2017GL075659.
Hoffman, Matthew J., Perego, Mauro, Andrews, Lauren C., Price, Stephen F., Neumann, Thomas A., Johnson, Jesse V., Catania, Ginny, & Lüthi, Martin P. Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075659
Hoffman, Matthew J., Perego, Mauro, Andrews, Lauren C., Price, Stephen F., Neumann, Thomas A., Johnson, Jesse V., Catania, Ginny, and Lüthi, Martin P. Wed . "Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075659.
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title = {Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland},
author = {Hoffman, Matthew J. and Perego, Mauro and Andrews, Lauren C. and Price, Stephen F. and Neumann, Thomas A. and Johnson, Jesse V. and Catania, Ginny and Lüthi, Martin P.},
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doi = {10.1002/2017GL075659},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2018}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Examples of moulins within the study area. a) WorldView satellite photo of moulin formed within supraglacial lake basin. The former lakeshore can be seen as an oval “bathtub ring” in the center of the photograph. Upthrusted blocks of ice can be seen around the primary moulin in themore » center of the image (indicated with an arrow), and long fractures extend out of the lake basin to the left, the right, and the lower right. A crevasse field covers the lower left of the image but does not intersect the lake basin. This lake is located at 69.45 °N 49.63° W. b) Aerial photograph of streams terminating in moulins (black arrows) without any nearby visible fractures or lakes. The flow direction of the major streams is from the bottom of the photo toward the top. The dashed black lines highlight incised stream reaches that no longer contain water, indicating the streams were formerly through-flowing prior to the formation of the moulin directly upstream. The large blue stream in the foreground is estimated to be 10 m wide. c) Aerial photograph of small stream that appears to be recently bisected by a fracture that caused an offset (black arrow) in the stream trace. The channel on the left appears to be dry. This is likely an early stage in the moulin formation process as there is no obvious moulin visible from above, yet the water from the stream section of the right disappears at the fracture. The stream section on the left is estimated to be 1 m wide.« less

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