A Thin Film Viscoplastic Theory for Calving Glaciers: Toward a Bound on the Calving Rate of Glaciers [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2019 Projections of the growth and demise of ice sheets and glaciers require physical models of the processes governing flow and fracture of ice. The flow of glacier ice has been treated using increasingly sophisticated models. By contrast, fracture, the process ultimately responsible for half of the mass lost from ice sheets through iceberg calving, is ...
J. N. Bassis, L. Ultee
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Large spatial variations in the flux balance along the front of a Greenland tidewater glacier [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 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]
The Cryosphere, 2023 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]
The Cryosphere, 2015 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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The slow advance of a calving glacier: Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A. [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2003 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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Deep Active Contour Models for Delineating Glacier Calving Fronts [PDF]
IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2022 This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for ...
Heidler, Konrad +5 more
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The future is Nye: an extension of the perfect plastic approximation to tidewater glaciers
Journal of Glaciology, 2016 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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Nature Communications, 2021 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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The Imminent Calving Retreat of Taku Glacier
Eos, 2021 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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Buoyant calving and ice-contact lake evolution at Pasterze Glacier (Austria) in the period 1998–2019 [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Rapid growth of proglacial lakes in the current warming climate can pose significant outburst flood hazards, increase rates of ice mass loss, and alter the dynamic state of glaciers. We studied the nature and rate of proglacial lake evolution at Pasterze
A. Kellerer-Pirklbauer +5 more
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