Moulins across the Greenland ice sheet

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Authors: Yuhan Wang, Kang Yang, Wei J, Wenzhuo Zhang, Dongyang Du, Wensong Zhang
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This repository provides the datasets and codes corresponding to the manuscript "Satellite mapping of the moulin distribution across the entire Greenland Ice Sheet". Detailed discriptions are provided below. 01_Moulin_Map_across_the_Greenland_Ice_Sheet.shp: Moulins (and terminal lakes) across the GrIS mapped from Sentinel-2 imagery in the summer of 2019.02_GrIS_Basin_with_Attributes.shp: The six basins of GrIS with attributes used in the analysis, including daily runoff, runoff area and ice velocity.03_GrIS_Basin_with_Bin_Area.shp: The areas of elevation bins in the six basins of GrIS.04_Supraglacial_lakes_across_the_GrIS_Dunmire2021.shp: Convex hulls of supraglacial lakes provided by Dunmire et al. (2021).05_Moulin_Samples.shp: Moulin samples in statistically significant hotspot and coldspot regions.06_Non-Moulin_Samples.shp: Non-moulin samples across the GrIS.07_Moulin_Statistics_across_Zwally_Basins.shp: Moulin numbers and densities, as well as ice sheet attributes, analyzed across the GrIS drainage systems delineated by Zwally et al. (2012). Code_1_Analysis of GrIS-wide moulin distribution.ipynb: A Jupyter Notebook to analyze moulin distribution across the GrIS, reproducing tables and figures presented in the manuscript with the provided data.Code_2_Analysis of potential controls on moulin distribution.ipynb: A Jupyter Notebook to analyze potential controls on moulin distribution, reproducing tables and figures presented in the manuscript with the provided data. Data Preparation: This folder includes data and codes supporting moulin identification. calculate NDWI from Sentinel-2 imagery.py: A Python script to calculate the normalized difference water index (NDWI) from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. calculate Drainage Networks from ArcticDEM.py: A Python script to model supraglacial drainage networks based on ArcticDEM. calculate Strain Rate from XY ice velocity.py: A Python script to calculate strain rates from ice velocity components in the x and y directions. GrIS_Flow_regime_4.tif: Flow regime 4 used to mask regions where moulin identification was not conducted.

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18 July 2026
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