The compacted firn layer skin of an ice sheet protects it from surface melting. Vibrations of the firn layer measured with seismometers Chaput et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079665) can portray how the firn layer melts, absorbs water, and refreezes, thus giving a sense of how ice sheets are resisting being denuded of their firn layer skin by climate warming.
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MacAyeal, D. R. (2018, October 28). Seismology Gets Under the Skin of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080366
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