Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland
by Ole Zeising, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Germany
Melt water lakes are an impressive and beautiful consequence of warm summer temperatures on Greenlands glaciers. This photo of such a lake with clear blue water was taken from a helicopter on the 79°N Glacier in northeast Greenland during an expedition in July 2018. Supraglacial melt water runs along the surface slope into depressions where the water is accumulating until it refreezes or drains.
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- Polar regions (196)
- Arctic (77)
- Exact location (-21.9000 W, 79.5000 N)
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6024 × 4024 px;
image/jpeg; 23.2 MB
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Sony ILCE-6000
Software: Affinity Photo
Taken on 30
July
2018
Submitted on 9 February 2020
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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