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Published October 19, 2020 | Version v0.2
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Inland limits to diffusion of thinning along Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glaciers

Creators

  • 1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • 2. University of Texas at Austin
  • 3. University of Idaho
  • 4. University of California, Irvine
  • 5. Utrecht University

Description

This dataset contains limits to the inland diffusion of terminus-initiated thinning along 141 Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glaciers. The data is separated in 187 netcdf files, which represent individual outlet glaciers as well as individual branches of glaciers. Files are named glacier XXXX.nc where XXXX is the identifier for an individual glacier or branch. Identifiers that begin with a letter ('a', 'b', 'c', or 'd') represent a branch of an outlet glacier.

Each file contains glacier geometry, dynamic thinning, Peclet number, and identified knickpoints along 6-18 flowlines spanning the width of each glacier.

Example code that can be used to read and plot the data can be found here: https://github.com/dfelikson/GrIS-thinning-limits-and-knickpoints.

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