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Greenland's lurking aquifer

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Runoff estimates from the Greenland ice sheet carry uncertainty because the fate of surface melt in permanently snow-covered regions is unconstrained. In situ and airborne observations reveal large-scale liquid water storage in buried layers of aged and compacted snow.

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Figure 1: Water draining from a core extracted from 15 metres below the surface of the southern Greenland ice sheet.

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  1. Joel Harper is in the Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive 1296, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA,

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Harper, J. Greenland's lurking aquifer. Nature Geosci 7, 86–87 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2061

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