The ice surface- and bed topography of Greenland with elevations relative to present-day global mean sea-level. Almost 80% of Greenland’s surface is covered by ice and its weight is pushing down the rocky crust below it. If the ice sheet would melt, post-glacial rebound would cause an uplift of the rocky surface of Greenland. Elevations are taken from the BedMachine compilations (Morlighem et al., 2017) and the Scientific colour map ‚oleron‘ is used to represent bed topography accurately and to all readers.
- Creator: Guy Paxman
- This version: 23.06.2024
- License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Specific citation: These graphics by Guy Paxman are available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
- Related references:
Morlighem, M., Williams, C. N., Rignot, E. et al. BedMachine v3: Complete bed topography and ocean bathymetry mapping of Greenland from multibeam echo sounding combined with mass conservation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(21), 11-051 (2017)
- Individual still images included
- Light- and dark background versions
- Transparent background
- Perceptually uniform colour map
- Colour-vision deficiency friendly
- Readable in black&white
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