Glacier tongue
Flow and mixing near a glacier tongue: a pilot study
... the glacier tongue (Robinson and Haskell, 1990; Squire et ...the glacier tongue on local ...larger glacier tongues, ice shelves and grounded icebergs (Rignot et ...
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Changes in water properties and flow regime on the continental shelf off the Adelie/George V Land coast, East Antarctica, after glacier tongue calving
... including glacier tongue growth and iceberg calving can induce various impacts on oceanic circulation and sea ice ...as glacier discharge and ice- berg grounding can change the source water ...
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Brief Communication “The 2013 Erebus Glacier Tongue calving event”
... Erebus Glacier Tongue (EGT) is a small glacier extend- ing from the western coast of Ross Island into southern Mc- Murdo ...the glacier tongue was approximately ...The glacier is ...
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Mechanisms leading to the 2016 giant twin glacier collapses, Aru Range, Tibet
... Aru-2 glacier, the points at which bedrock is clearly visible in the Pléiades images match well with the locations where our reconstructed bedrock topography matches the Pléiades DEM (dots in ...Aru-2 ...
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Modeling ocean cryosphere interactions off Adélie and George V Land, East Antarctica
... Ad é lie and George V Land (AGVL; see Fig. 2), the DSW can access the ice sheet grounding line where the temperature difference from the pressure-suppressed freezing point drives basal melting. In the AGVL re- gion, DSW ...
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Ice cliff contribution to the tongue-wide ablation of Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal, central Himalaya
... debris-free glacier tongues appear to have similar thinning rates in the ...the tongue of Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal, between 2015 and ...average glacier tongue surface. However, on ...
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Regional changes in icescape impact shelf circulation and basal melting
... Figure 1. MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) image of the MGT region (a) precalving (3 January 2009) and (b) postcalving (3 January 2013). The coastline from the model is highlighted in blue, and the ...
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Global view of sea-ice production in polynyas and its linkage to dense/bottom water formation
... Mertz Glacier Tongue (MGT), the third source of AABW, sea-ice production decreased by as much as 40 %, due to the MGT calving in early 2010, resulting in a significant decrease in AABW ...
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Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B
... Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, which had previously reduced westward flow of ice into the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, is estimated to have caused a marked impact on sea-ice formation regionally ...
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Brief communication: The Khurdopin glacier surge revisited – extreme flow velocities and formation of a dammed lake in 2017
... Abstract. Glacier surges occur regularly in the Karakoram, but the driving mechanisms, their frequency and its relation to a changing climate remain ...a glacier surge of the Khurdopin Glacier in ...
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Recent dynamic changes on Fleming Glacier after the disintegration of Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
... depth at the TSX–TDX acquisitions in 2011 and 2014 and re- maining vertical registration errors. In order to compare the TSX–TDX data with the ATM data, we extracted the TSX– TDX elevation change rates at the locations ...
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Glacial lake outburst flood hazard assessment by satellite Earth observation in the Himalayas (Chomolhari area, Bhutan)
... Chhu glacier, with very steep slopes be- tween 4800 and 6000 m ...fastest glacier velocities ...the glacier related to a wave effect produced by the increase in load on the accumulation zone caused ...
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Modelling the sensitivity of dense shelf water formation in the Mertz Glacier region, East Antarctica
... This chapter focuses on the changes in the general oceanography of the continental shelf after the Mertz Glacier calving event. It uses the same simulations (PRE and POST) detailed in the previous chapter. Whereas ...
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Glacier changes in the Karakoram region mapped by multimission satellite imagery
... advancing glacier tongues (Barrand and Murray, 2006; Hewitt, 1969; Meier and Post, ...years, glacier surface velocities increase by at least one order of magnitude compared to nonsurging glaciers (Meier and ...
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Prey capture kinematics of ant eating lizards
... for tongue protrusion? One possibility is that this mechanism may require less total movement of the hyobranchial ...the tongue as it is shaped and positioned for lingual ...fast tongue movements may ...
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Computerized tongue image segmentation via the double geo-vector flow
... The DGF exhibited a better performance on almost every metric except for Norm.MD%, which measured the mean distance between the edges obtained automat- ically and the standard tongue body boundaries obtained ...
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The tongue as a gripper
... The mechanics behind high-speed tongues were reviewed by Van Leeuwen et al. (2000), who analyzed the various types of amphibian tongue projection. Iwasaki (2002) reviewed the epithelial features and adaptations ...
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The ancient, Present and Future Prospects of Tongue Manifestation
... the tongue (Fig.1). In addition, the tongue and five Zang-viscera are connected by meridians and collaterals, the Collateral of Heart Meridian is tied to tongue, the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin is ...
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... Friction between the side walls of the valley and the edges of the glacier causes the edges to move slower.. Thicker ice in the center of the glacier allows for a.[r] ...
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Glacier Biogeochemistry
... The helicopter ride to the site, some 70 km north of Kangerlussuaq, was incred- ible, and one I have never forgotten. Mark was in the front with the pilot guiding him to our site. The site had no name, so we eventually ...
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