Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-331-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-331-2014
Review article
 | 
25 Sep 2014
Review article |  | 25 Sep 2014

High-resolution ice thickness and bed topography of a land-terminating section of the Greenland Ice Sheet

K. Lindbäck, R. Pettersson, S. H. Doyle, C. Helanow, P. Jansson, S. S. Kristensen, L. Stenseng, R. Forsberg, and A. L. Hubbard

Related authors

Hydrology and runoff routing of glacierized drainage basins in the Kongsfjord area, northwest Svalbard
Ankit Pramanik, Jack Kohler, Katrin Lindbäck, Penelope How, Ward Van Pelt, Glen Liston, and Thomas V. Schuler
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-197,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-197, 2020
Revised manuscript not accepted
Short summary
Spatial and temporal variations in basal melting at Nivlisen ice shelf, East Antarctica, derived from phase-sensitive radars
Katrin Lindbäck, Geir Moholdt, Keith W. Nicholls, Tore Hattermann, Bhanu Pratap, Meloth Thamban, and Kenichi Matsuoka
The Cryosphere, 13, 2579–2595, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2579-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2579-2019, 2019
Short summary
Subglacial topography, ice thickness, and bathymetry of Kongsfjorden, northwestern Svalbard
Katrin Lindbäck, Jack Kohler, Rickard Pettersson, Christopher Nuth, Kirsty Langley, Alexandra Messerli, Dorothée Vallot, Kenichi Matsuoka, and Ola Brandt
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1769–1781, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1769-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1769-2018, 2018
Short summary
Rapidly changing subglacial hydrological pathways at a tidewater glacier revealed through simultaneous observations of water pressure, supraglacial lakes, meltwater plumes and surface velocities
Penelope How, Douglas I. Benn, Nicholas R. J. Hulton, Bryn Hubbard, Adrian Luckman, Heïdi Sevestre, Ward J. J. van Pelt, Katrin Lindbäck, Jack Kohler, and Wim Boot
The Cryosphere, 11, 2691–2710, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2691-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2691-2017, 2017
Short summary
Hypsometric amplification and routing moderation of Greenland ice sheet meltwater release
Dirk van As, Andreas Bech Mikkelsen, Morten Holtegaard Nielsen, Jason E. Box, Lillemor Claesson Liljedahl, Katrin Lindbäck, Lincoln Pitcher, and Bent Hasholt
The Cryosphere, 11, 1371–1386, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1371-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1371-2017, 2017
Short summary

Related subject area

Glaciology
Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding line discharge from 1996–2024
Benjamin J. Davison, Anna E. Hogg, Thomas Slater, Richard Rigby, and Nicolaj Hansen
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3259–3281, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3259-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3259-2025, 2025
Short summary
A high-resolution pan-Arctic meltwater discharge dataset from 1950 to 2021
Adam Igneczi and Jonathan Louis Bamber
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3203–3218, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3203-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3203-2025, 2025
Short summary
Smoothed monthly Greenland ice sheet elevation changes during 2003–2023
Shfaqat A. Khan, Helene Seroussi, Mathieu Morlighem, William Colgan, Veit Helm, Gong Cheng, Danjal Berg, Valentina R. Barletta, Nicolaj K. Larsen, William Kochtitzky, Michiel van den Broeke, Kurt H. Kjær, Andy Aschwanden, Brice Noël, Jason E. Box, Joseph A. MacGregor, Robert S. Fausto, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Ian M. Howat, Kuba Oniszk, Dominik Fahrner, Anja Løkkegaard, Eigil Y. H. Lippert, Alicia Bråtner, and Javed Hassan
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 3047–3071, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3047-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3047-2025, 2025
Short summary
A revised and expanded deep radiostratigraphy of the Greenland Ice Sheet from airborne radar sounding surveys between 1993 and 2019
Joseph A. MacGregor, Mark A. Fahnestock, John D. Paden, Jilu Li, Jeremy P. Harbeck, and Andy Aschwanden
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 2911–2931, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2911-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2911-2025, 2025
Short summary
Annual mass change of the world's glaciers from 1976 to 2024 by temporal downscaling of satellite data with in situ observations
Inés Dussaillant, Romain Hugonnet, Matthias Huss, Etienne Berthier, Jacqueline Bannwart, Frank Paul, and Michael Zemp
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 1977–2006, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1977-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1977-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Ahlstrøm, A. P., Mohr, J. J., Reeh, N., Christensen Lintz, E., and Hooke, R. L.: Controls on the basal water pressure in subglacial channels near the margin of the Greenland ice sheet, J. Glaciol., 51, 443–450, https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829214, 2005.
Bamber, J. L., Layberry, R. L., and Gogineni, S. P.: A new ice thickness and bed data set for the Greenland ice sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 33773–33780, 2001.
Bamber, J. L., Griggs, J. A., Hurkmans, R. T. W. L., Dowdeswell, J. A., Gogineni, S. P., Howat, I., Mouginot, J., Paden, J., Palmer, S., Rignot, E., and Steinhage, D.: A new bed elevation dataset for Greenland, The Cryosphere, 7, 499–510, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-499-2013, 2013a.
Bamber, J. L., Siegert, M. J., Griggs, J. A., Marshall, S. J., and Spada, G.: Paleofluvial Mega-Canyon Beneath the Central Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 341, 997–999, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1239794, 2013b.
Bartholomew, I. D., Nienow, P., Sole, A., Mair, D., Cowton, T., King, M. A., and Palmer, S.: Seasonal variations in Greenland Ice Sheet motion: Inland extent and behaviour at higher elevations, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 307, 271–278, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.014, 2011.
Download
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint