Data repository associated with the manuscript 'Ice slabs thickening drives surface runoff expansion from the Greenland Ice Sheet's percolation zone', Nicolas Jullien, Andrew J. Tedstone, Horst Machguth, (submitted to Nature Communications)

Introduction:

We provide a short description of each file present in this data repository, and flag to the corresponding reference when applicable. Please cite the appropriate references when using these data.

Data:

In this repository:

• 'master_maps.zip'. Raster files. Surface hydrology connectivity map over the Greeland Ice sheet, first presented in Tedstone and Machguth (2022). The easiest way to handle this dataset is to use the 'master_map_GrIS_mean.vrt' file.
• 'AreasSupportingRunoff.zip'. Raster files. Shows the areas supporting runoff mapped from 2017-2018 composite winter Sentinel-1 Synthethetic Aperture Radar at C-band using the Horizontal-Vertical polarisation backscatter.
• 'RunoffLimits.zip'. '.csv' files. Maximum visible runoff limits in 2012 and 2019, sorted for each boxes generated by Tedstone and Machguth (2022). Each '.csv' file stores the data points coordinates (Geographical Reference System: WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)) of the maximum visible runoff limit retrievals after filtering out the outliers. The maximum visible runoff limits where first presented in Tedstone and Machguth (2022).

Used in this study but from other datasets:

• The ice slabs extent and ice slabs thickness were first presented in Jullien et al., (2023), and are accessible at: https://zenodo.org/records/7505426
• The radargrams displayed in Fig. 6c-f were first presented in Jullien et al., (2023), and are accessible at: https://zenodo.org/records/7505426. The following files were used:
  • 'L1_may12_03_1_aggregated.pickle'
  • 'L1_may12_03_2_aggregated.pickle'
  • '20100508_01_114_115_Depth_CORRECTED.pickle'
  • '20140424_01_002_004_Depth_CORRECTED.pickle'
  • '20180427_01_170_172_Depth_CORRECTED.pickle'
• The surface topography present in Fig. 6g are 10 m resolution mosaics from the ArcticDEMv3 (Porter et al., 2018), and accessible at: https://data.pgc.umn.edu/elev/dem/setsm/ArcticDEM/mosaic/v3.0/
• The winter time strain rates map displayed in Fig. 6h were first presented in Poinar and Andrews (2021), and are accessible at: https://ubir.buffalo.edu/xmlui/handle/10477/82127

References:

Jullien, N., Tedstone, A. J., Machguth, H., Karlsson, N. B., & Helm, V. (2023). Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Slab Expansion and Thickening. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), e2022GL100911. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100911

Poinar, K., & Andrews, L. C. (2021). Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale. The Cryosphere, 15(3), 1455–1483. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1455-2021

Porter, C., Morin, P., Howat, I., Noh, M.-J., Bates, B., Peterman, K., Keesey, S., Schlenk, M., Gardiner, J., Tomko, K., Willis, M., Kelleher, C., Cloutier, M., Husby, E., Foga, S., Nakamura, H., Platson, M., Wethington, M., Jr., Williamson, C., … Bojesen, M. (2018). ArcticDEM, Version 3 (Version V1) [dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OHHUKH

Tedstone, A. J., & Machguth, H. (2022). Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01371-z