Significant contribution of small icebergs to the freshwater budget in Greenland fjords

Soroush Rezvanbehbahani; Leigh A. Stearns; Ramtin Keramati; Siddharth Shankar; C. J. van der Veen

doi:10.1038/s43247-020-00032-3

Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2020)

Significant contribution of small icebergs to the freshwater budget in Greenland fjords

Soroush Rezvanbehbahani,
Leigh A. Stearns,
Ramtin Keramati,
Siddharth Shankar,
C. J. van der Veen

Affiliations

Soroush Rezvanbehbahani: Department of Geology, University of Kansas
Leigh A. Stearns: Department of Geology, University of Kansas
Ramtin Keramati: Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University
Siddharth Shankar: Department of Geology, University of Kansas
C. J. van der Veen: Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00032-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Small icebergs comprise a significant fraction of icebergs in Greenland fjords and have fallen below the detection and resolution limit of earlier satellite data, suggest analyses of high-resolution imagery with deep neural networks.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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