Petermann Glacier

also known as

Petermann Gletsjer

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calving

Large calving events of the PG [Petermann Glacier] floating ice tongue in 2010 and 2012 (Johannessen et al., 2013; Rückamp et al., 2019) were associated with a 10 % acceleration of the glacier (Rückamp et al., 2019).

description

The glacier of Petermann Fjord in Greenland that feeds ice into Hall Basin.

drainage of Greenland Ice Sheet

One such glacier is Petermann Glacier (PG), draining about 4 % of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) (based on area of the drainage basin; Rignot and Kanagaratnam, 2006) into Hall Basin in Nares Strait (Fig. 1).

feeds ice into

Hall Basin

glacier in

namesake of

August Heinrich Petermann

radar image from Envisat

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Woodland Park Zoo

submarine melting

Although the calving events have attracted considerable attention, submarine melting of the ice tongue accounts for 80 % of the mass loss at PG [Petermann Glacier], making it particularly sensitive to ice–ocean interactions (Cai et al., 2017; Münchow et al., 2014; Rignot and Steffen, 2008; Rückamp et al., 2019).

tags

valley walls

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546312

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Wikipedia

Petermann Glacier (Wikipedia) Petermann Glacier (Danish: Petermann Gletsjer) is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10’ north latitude, near Hans Island.