Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4681177 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2006 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The uplift map of GrÃmsvötn shows that 10.9 (± 1) km2 of ice was floating between 11 and 16 August 2004. The ice shelf rose by 1.7 (± 0.6) m indicating that the volume of liquid water in the lake increased by 0.018 (± 0.007) km3. Our field observations show that surface melting due to meteorological processes contributed 70% of the accumulated water, hence, the rest originated from ice melted by the subglacial geothermal activity. The power required to melt 0.005 km3 (water equivalent) of basal ice in 5 days is 4000 MW. The applicability of the technique can be extended to volcanology and seismology, and even landslides or subsidence, when finer-resolution optical images become available. Applied to two pairs of images, it could solve for the 3-dimensional displacements of the Earth's surface.
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Authors
E. Berthier, H. Björnsson, F. Pálsson, K.L. Feigl, M. Llubes, F. Rémy,