Greenland Ice Sheet Discharge Explorer

Tom Chudley

Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol

2026

Data

This widget visualises the 'living dataset' of Greenland's ice discharge data made available by GEUS.

The most recent paper citation is:

Mankoff, K. D., Solgaard, A., Colgan, W., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Khan, S. A., & Fausto, R. S. (2020). Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020. Earth System Science Data, 12(2), 1367-1383. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1367-2020

And the dataset can be found at:

Mankoff, K. D., Solgaard, A., & Larsen, S. (2020). Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through last month: Discharge, GEUS Dataverse https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/ice_discharge/d/v02

The dataset updates monthly with new discharge data, which is pulled through to this widget automatically.

How to Use

There are three options for the 'Dataset' drop-down menu:

• Greenland Ice Sheet: Visualise total discharge, in Gt/yr, for the entire ice sheet.
• Regions: Visualise total discharge for seven regions of the ice sheet (Central East, Central West, North East, North, North West, South East, South West) according to Mouginot and Rignot, (2019).
• Sectors (Glaciers): Visualise total discharge for 260 sectors (i.e. outlet glaciers), following the Mouginot and Rignot (2019) classification.

The 'Show Error Bounds' box toggles error bars on and off. 'Download CSV' will download the datasets shown on-screen, including discharge (in Gt/yr), error (in Gt/yr), and coverage (in the range 0-1) columns for every selected dataset.

Test

For offline testing, cd to the base directory, and run

python -m http.server 8000

Whilst running, the site will be available at http://localhost:8000.