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Greenland GZ retreat #10
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** GZ retreat in Greenland

#+BEGIN_SRC jupyter-python :exports both
import xarray as xr
fname = '~/data/Mankoff_2020/ice/latest/gate.nc'
ds = xr.open_dataset(fname)
From Millan (2022) http://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3021-2022
+ Gz retreat is ~0.13 km/yr (Fig. 3a)
+ Ice velocity is ~1200 m/yr (Fig. 3b) (not needed)
+ 20 km wide

ds = ds.where(ds['name_Bjørk'] == 'Petermann Gletsjer', drop=True)
print(ds['discharge'].to_dataframe().max())
print(ds['discharge'].to_dataframe().mean())
#+END_SRC
Rates are higher per Ciraci (2023) http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220924120, but
+ Ice surface close to flotation near GZ, and shelf is ~500 m thick, so estimate 600 m ice.

#+RESULTS:
: discharge 18.015471
: dtype: float32
: discharge 12.114111
: dtype: float32
Therefore, gz retreat in Gt/year is width * thick * retreat rate * density

See Issue #10
#+BEGIN_SRC bash :exports both :results verbatim
frink "0.13 km/yr * 20 km * 600 m * 917 kg/m^3 -> Gt/yr"
#+END_SRC

What glaciers to include?
#+RESULTS:
: 1.43052

Assume similar from other ice shelves too, for a total of ~5 Gt/yr GZ retreat in Greenland.
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CD,Condensation,30,TODO
DP,Deposition,20,TODO
FRET,Frontal retreat,50,kochtitzky_2023
GZRET,Grounding line retreat,10,TODO
GZRET,Grounding line retreat,5,this
SU,Sublimation,55,fettweis_2020
RU,Runoff,390,fettweis_2002
DYN,Dynamics,500,mankoff_2020_solid
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