Internal Layer Tracing and Age–Depth Relationship From the Ice Divide Toward Jakobshavn, Greenland

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Signs of long-term glaciological processes and past ice-sheet structure are preserved in the internal layer manifestations of the Greenland ice sheet. Internal layer data have been collected over a substantial portion of the Greenland ice sheet using the University of Kansas ice-sounding radar. In this letter, these layers are traced along thousands of kilometers of flight lines from the ice divide toward Jakobshavn, which is the most active glacier in Greenland. The authors determine the traced radar layers' age at the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) site using the GRIP core age-depth relationship. Inasmuch as the depth varies spatially for a layer of a specific dated age, an age-depth relationship for each location along the flight lines of this letter can be found using the traced layers. Thirty-one points where flight lines cross over one another were analyzed. From the flight line crossover analysis, a 9-m maximum difference (< 1%) was found