RT Journal Article
T1 Periodic outburst floods from an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland
A1 Grinsted, Aslak
A1 Hvidberg, Christine
A1 Campos, Néstor
A1 Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe
AB We report evidence of four cycles of outburst floods from Catalina Lake, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland, identified in satellite imagery between 1966–2016. The lake measures 20–25 km2, and lake level drops 130–150 m in each event, corresponding to a water volume of 2.6–3.4 Gt, and a release of potential energy of 1016 J, among the largest outburst floods reported in historical times. The drainage cycle has shortened systematically, and the lake filling rate has increased over each cycle, suggesting that the drainage pattern is changing due to climate warming with possible implications for environmental conditions in Scoresbysund fjord.
PB Nature Research
SN 2045-2322
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99561
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99561
LA eng
NO Grinsted, Aslak, Christine S. Hvidberg, Néstor Campos, y Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. «Periodic Outburst Floods from an Ice-Dammed Lake in East Greenland». Scientific Reports 7, n.o 1 (30 de agosto de 2017): 9966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07960-9.
NO European Commission 
NO Villum Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 25 abr 2025