Glacier terminus
Instruments and Methods Evaluation of existing and new methods of tracking glacier terminus change
... of glacier terminus change, though a systematic comparison of these has not been ...track terminus change (the centre-line, bow and box methods) against a full range of idealized glaciological ...
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Rapid thinning at a glacier terminus and icefield of
... Time series of lake level change of Chibuzhang Co from T/P-series altimeters over 1993-2017, 554. overlapped with glacier elevation changes at Site A[r] ...
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Effect of near terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates
... The melt rates achieved in this study display order of magnitude agreement with estimates from hydrographic data. However, it is important to stress that significant uncertainty exists in the submarine melt calculation ...
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Sensitivity of a calving glacier to ice—ocean interactions under climate change : new insights from a 3 D full Stokes model
... the terminus by submarine melting ...the terminus at rates of up to sev- eral metres per day (Jenkins, 2011; Xu et ...the glacier terminus (Sohn et ...seasonal terminus advance (Vieli ...
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Simultaneous disintegration of outlet glaciers in Porpoise Bay (Wilkes Land), East Antarctica, driven by sea ice break-up
... (West) Glacier advances, it slowly pushes the multi- year sea ice attached to its terminus further towards the open ocean to the point where the sea ice attached to the glacier tongue becomes more ...
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Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates
... The melt rates achieved in this study display order of magnitude agreement with estimates from hydrographic data. However, it is important to stress that significant uncertainty exists in the submarine melt calculation ...
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Multi-method observation and analysis of a tsunami caused by glacier calving
... since 2012, and happen roughly every week during the sum- mer. One such event happened on 2 July 2014 when a tour boat was in proximity of the glacier terminus. The ice front collapse and the ensuing ...
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A multi-dimensional analysis of pro-glacial landscape change at Sólheimajökull, Southern Iceland
... Figure 8: Evolution of proglacial river channel head elevation A and mean gradient B in response to glacier terminus position changes and ice-marginal lake development.... A multi-dimens[r] ...
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The glacial sequence in the middle Maruia Valley : south east Nelson, N Z
... ation of lateral moraines and outwash surface remnants on either side of the valley would suggest that the glacier terminus, during the Reid Stream II advance , extended from Trig 4621 i[r] ...
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UAV-based Survey of Glaciers in Himalayas: Opportunities and Challenges
... characteristics of the UAV mission plan adopted for the selected glacier sites. The fixed-wing UAV takes-off with a motion sensor technology, i.e. by moving UAV back and forth three to four times to launch the ...
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Terminus-driven retreat of a major southwest Greenland tidewater glacier during the early 19th century: insights from glacier reconstructions and numerical modelling
... tidewater glacier terminus response following the ...that terminus forcing rather than surface mass balance drove the ...Modelled glacier sensitivity to submarine melt rates is also ...
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Improving estimation of glacier volume change: a GLIMS case study of Bering Glacier System, Alaska
... outlined glacier shape on estimates of mass-balance and volume ...between glacier mass- balance and AAR. A nearby “benchmark” glacier with an- nual, in situ, surface mass-balance measurements is ...
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A multi parameter study of iceberg calving and the retreat of Haupapa/Tasman Glacier, South Island, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... in terminus position to imply a calving rate, although process–based models have also been developed to account for the variability of ...between glacier dynamics and calving ...and glacier dynamics, ...
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Tidewater glacier surges initiated at the terminus
... (McMillan et al., 2014; Sund et al., 2009), or if they occur in response to changes in the force balance at the terminus, like “ speedups ” of tidewater glaciers observed in Greenland and elsewhere (Howat et al., ...
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Last chance tourism at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Westland Tai Poutini National Park: Stakeholder perspective
... of glacier retreat and recovery was a prevalent theme in interviews: comments varied from confidence in the survival of the glacier/s ...a glacier – tourists have been coming here for 100s of years”) ...
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A new method for deriving glacier centerlines applied to glaciers in Alaska and northwest Canada
... requiring glacier outlines and a digital eleva- tion model (DEM) as ...of glacier heads ...highest glacier elevations compare well to our longest cen- terline ...calculating glacier length, ...
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NON-DESTRUCTIVELY MAPPING THE IN-SITU HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES OF SNOW, FIRN, AND GLACIAL ICE WITH GEORADAR
... Sperry Glacier with a warming rate of i °C/century above present temperature (note that i represents a temperature rise at a rate of i/century so actual temperatures at any time t < 100 will be less than ...
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The Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) v1.1
... global glacier evolution, the Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM, ...future glacier change range from simple box models ...of glacier attributes, the automated com- putation of glacier ...
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Origin and dynamic significance of longitudinal structures (“flow stripes”) in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
... Although there is compelling evidence for recent and very rapid changes in the velocity (Pritchard et al., 2009) and surface elevation (Johnson et al., 2014) of individual outlet glaciers in Antarctica, it is possible ...
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