Tidewater glaciers
The sensitivity of flowline models of tidewater glaciers to parameter uncertainty
... fast-flowing tidewater glaciers and predict change because the continuous grounding line track- ing, high horizontal resolution, and physically based calving criterion that are essential to realistic ...
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Calving rates at tidewater glaciers vary strongly with ocean temperature
... of tidewater glaciers, or frontal ablation, occurs by a combination of calving and submarine melting 1,2 ...at tidewater termini, particularly where glaciers are impacted by incursions of warm ...
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Quantifying suspended sediment concentration in subglacial sediment plumes discharging from two Svalbard tidewater glaciers using Landsat 8 and in situ measurements
... terminating glaciers. When these relationships are applied to plumes from tidewater glaciers, the results do not match observations; the SSC is much lower and the plume is less extensive than ...
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Melt under cutting and buoyancy driven calving from tidewater glaciers: new insights from discrete element and continuum model simulations
... Discharge of ice from tidewater glaciers is a major contribu- tor to sea-level rise (Gardner and others, 2013; Enderlin and others, 2014). Predictions of future mass loss depend critic- ally on reliable ...
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Calving relation for tidewater glaciers based on detailed stress field analysis
... Ocean-terminating glaciers in Arctic regions have undergone rapid dynamic changes in recent years, which have been related to a dramatic increase in calving ...grounded tidewater glaciers that is ...
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Linear response of east Greenland's tidewater glaciers to ocean/atmosphere warming
... While 287 topography remains an important factor in modulating the response of tidewater glaciers to climate, 288 our findings nevertheless suggest that simple parameterisations linking [r] ...
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Calving on tidewater glaciers amplified by submarine frontal melting
... grounded tidewater glaciers, modelling studies have focused largely on the effects of basal and surface ...a tidewater glacier is used to investigate the effects of frontal melting on calving, ...
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Extensive retreat of Greenland tidewater glaciers 2000-2010
... major tidewater glaciers in the ...of glaciers accelerating and then decelerating in this period (Howat et ...SE glaciers and the temperature in the IC lagged by one ...
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Linear response of east Greenland’s tidewater glaciers to ocean/atmosphere warming
... 2011 'Ocean forcing of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Calving fronts and patterns of retreat identified by automatic satellite monitoring of eastern outlet glaciers', Journal of Geophysical Re[r] ...
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Glacier dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Helheim, Kangerdlugssuaq and 14 other major Greenland outlet glaciers
... fastest-flowing tidewater glaciers, and compare these to more recent data from Landsat-7 and satellite-borne synthetic-aperture ...major tidewater outlet glaciers around Greenland, includ- ing ...
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Ice–ocean interaction and calving front morphology at two west Greenland tidewater outlet glaciers
... of tidewater glaciers is frequently modelled and much speculated upon but re- mains largely ...Store glaciers, two major marine outlets draining the western sector of the GrIS dur- ing 2009 and ...
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A model for tidewater glacier undercutting by submarine melting
... buoyancy level and maximum height reached by the plume are therefore little affected by terminus shape, exemplified by the low-discharge plumes all reaching a maximum height close to z = 330 m (Figure 2b). We note that use ...
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Estimating Greenland tidewater glacier retreat driven by submarine melting
... these glaciers is readily available due to the presence of warm subtropical wa- ters around Greenland (Straneo et ...from tidewater glaciers in Greenland (Straneo and Cenedese, 2015; Jackson and ...
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A simple stress-based cliff-calving law
... Pollard et al. (2015) and DeConto and Pollard (2016) in- corporated cliff calving in Antarctica projections by assum- ing a linear relation between freeboard exceeding the stabil- ity limit and calving rate and showed ...
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Variable glacier response to atmospheric warming, northern Antarctic Peninsula, 1988–2009
... and tidewater glaciers has not yet been quantified or assessed for variability, and there are sparse data for glacier classification, morphology, area, length or ...194 glaciers on Trinity Peninsula, ...
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Tidewater glacier surges initiated at the terminus
... two tidewater glaciers, Aavatsmarkbreen and Wahlenbergbreen, in ...both glaciers underwent retreat and steepening, and in the case of Aavatsmarkbreen, we demonstrate that this was accompanied by a ...
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Peculiar Characteristics of Fragmentation of Glaciers: A Case Study of Western Himalaya, India
... two glaciers due to the deglaciation during the monitoring period of 1962 and ...the glaciers have not shown any ...tributary glaciers respectively (Figure ...
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Surface motion of active rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: inventory and a case study using InSAR
... rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA, few efforts have been made to measure their surface ...rock glaciers in this region. In the late summer of 2007, these rock glaciers moved at ...
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Debris thickness of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from satellite imagery using a nonlinear energy balance model
... Foster et al. (2012) is the first study, to the authors’ knowl- edge, that accurately derives debris thickness from satellite imagery. The model uses a digital elevation model (DEM) generated from an airborne lidar ...
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From Doktor Kurowski’s Schneegrenze to our modern glacier equilibrium line altitude (ELA)
... Readers need not share my wish to honour Kurowski’s pioneering work, involving one of the earliest quantita- tive models in glaciology, but they should agree that the estimation of glacier ELA from topographic proxies is ...
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