New paper from GLACIOME project: laboratory experimental constraints on iceberg mélange rheology led by Kavinda Nissanka from @emoryuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...

The cold melt plume dropping off the bottom of freshwater ice, with temperature, salinity and velocity measured to ~0.1 mm spatial resolution (1/10 the ice-water boundary layer thickness) via a new two-dye LIF technique

@dgrau13.bsky.social ran thousands of idealized simulations of water flow on randomly generated self-affine surfaces, creating a dataset of supraglacial melt lakes statistics

The average area and depth of lakes which may eventually fill those depressions can thus be predicted from the statistics of the surface roughness which IceSat-2 is built to measure with its soothing green light (pew pew)

This is where @dgrau13.bsky.social comes in: she adapts ideas from percolation physics, which studies how stuff (liquid, charge, social interactions) moves over bumpy landscapes or networks