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Calving glaciers and ice shelves [PDF]
Calving, or the release of icebergs from glaciers and floating ice shelves, is an important process transferring mass into the world’s oceans. Calving glaciers and ice sheets make a large contribution to sea-level rise, but large uncertainty remains about future ice sheet response to alternative carbon scenarios.
Douglas I. Benn, Jan A. Åström
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Large spatial variations in the flux balance along the front of a Greenland tidewater glacier [PDF]
The frontal flux balance of a medium-sized tidewater glacier in western Greenland in the summer is assessed by quantifying the individual components (ice flux, retreat, calving, and submarine melting) through a combination of data and models. Ice flux
T. J. W. Wagner +6 more
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Impact of tides on calving patterns at Kronebreen, Svalbard – insights from three-dimensional ice dynamical modelling [PDF]
Understanding calving processes and their controls is of importance for reducing uncertainty in sea level rise estimates. The impact of tidal fluctuations and frontal melt on calving patterns has been researched through both modelling and observational ...
F. A. Holmes +4 more
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Modelling the impact of submarine frontal melting and ice mélange on glacier dynamics [PDF]
Submarine melting of the calving face of tidewater glaciers and the mechanical back force applied by the ice mélange layer are two mechanisms generally proposed to explain seasonal variations at the calving front of tidewater glaciers.
J. Krug +3 more
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A simple parametrization of mélange buttressing for calving glaciers [PDF]
Abstract. Both ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are discharging ice into the ocean. In many regions along the coast of the ice sheets, the icebergs calve into a bay. If the addition of icebergs through calving is faster than their transport out of the embayment, the icebergs will be frozen into a mélange with surrounding sea ice in winter.
T. Schlemm +4 more
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The slow advance of a calving glacier: Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A. [PDF]
AbstractHubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America. In contrast to most glaciers in Alaska and northwestern Canada, Hubbard Glacier thickened and advanced during the 20th century. This a typical behavior is an important example of how insensitive to climate a glacier can become during parts of the calving glacier cycle.
Dennis C. Trabant +4 more
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The Imminent Calving Retreat of Taku Glacier
Long an anomaly among glaciers, advancing while most others shrank, Taku Glacier is starting to succumb to climate change, offering an unprecedented look at the onset of tidewater glacier retreat.
Christopher McNeil +7 more
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The future is Nye: an extension of the perfect plastic approximation to tidewater glaciers
Accurate modeling of calving glaciers relies on knowledge of many processes (ice flow, surface/submarine melting, calving, mélange interaction) and glacier-specific factors (air temperature, ocean circulation, precipitation rate, glacier geometry) that ...
LIZZ ULTEE, JEREMY BASSIS
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Thermal conditions and circulation near glacier fronts are important to understand the recent rapid retreat of calving glaciers. New observations from a glacial lake suggesting a feedback mechanism between atmospheric warming, glacier front melting and ...
Shin Sugiyama +7 more
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Deep Active Contour Models for Delineating Glacier Calving Fronts [PDF]
This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for ...
Heidler, Konrad +5 more
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