{"id":16038,"date":"2020-11-15T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:39:32","slug":"scientists-drill-accidentally-unleashes-a-flood-of-icy-water-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/scientists-drill-accidentally-unleashes-a-flood-of-icy-water-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists\u2019 drill accidentally unleashes a flood of icy water \u2014 and data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers (including C-DEBI Director <strong>Jan Amend<\/strong>) drilling a borehole through a glacier inadvertently triggered an outpouring of frigid water into a nearby river \u2014 providing an unusual chance to examine an enigmatic type of natural flood. Glacial floods, or j\u00f6kulhlaups as they\u2019re known in Iceland, are created by the sudden release of water from lakes beneath glaciers. Scientists have been puzzled over what causes these floods and why they occur regularly at certain glaciers. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1029\/2020GL089876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1029\/2020GL089876\">Read the full journal article<\/a> in Geophysical Research Letters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers (including C-DEBI Director Jan Amend) drilling a borehole through a glacier inadvertently triggered an outpouring of frigid water into a nearby river \u2014 providing an unusual chance to examine an enigmatic type of natural flood. Glacial floods, or j\u00f6kulhlaups as they\u2019re known in Iceland, are created by the sudden release of water from lakes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16042,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions\/16042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}