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Characterizing the subglacial environment of lower Thwaites Glacier using radar modeling

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology
Understanding the spatial heterogeneity beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, is vital to projecting its impact on future sea levels. Radar-echo sounding (RES) is commonly used to infer subglacial conditions, but these data can be challenging to ...
Chris Pierce   +6 more
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A Monte-Carlo error analysis for basal sliding velocity calculations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Since glacier beds are mostly inaccessible, numerical inversion of the surface velocity field provides a valuable method for calculating the basal shear stress and sliding velocity. However, previous theoretical studies (limited either to planar slabs or
Nienow, Peter   +2 more
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Warm proglacial lake temperatures and thermal undercutting enhance rapid retreat of an Arctic glacier [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere
Determining the characteristics of Arctic proglacial lakes is essential for understanding their current and future influence on glacier mass loss, capacity as a carbon sink and the associated impacts for downstream hydrology and ecology.
A. Dye   +8 more
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Including debris cover effects in a distributed model of glacier ablation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Distributed glacier melt models generally assume that the glacier surface consists of bare exposed ice and snow. In reality, many glaciers are wholly or partially covered in layers of debris that tend to suppress ablation rates.
Reid, Tim   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Updating Norway’s glacial lake extents in 2023–2024 using Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2 data and machine learning

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology
Glacial lakes are increasing in number and size worldwide, posing growing risks for outburst floods. Norway’s last glacial lake inventory used semi-automatic mapping on Sentinel-2 imagery from 2018–19.
Ronja Lappe, Liss Marie Andreassen
doaj   +1 more source

Improved representation of laminar and turbulent sheet flow in subglacial drainage models

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology
Subglacial hydrology models struggle to reproduce seasonal drainage patterns that are consistent with observed subglacial water pressures and surface velocities. We modify the standard sheet-flow parameterization within a coupled sheet–channel subglacial
Tim Hill   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Glacier recession since the Little Ice Age: Implications for water storage in a Rocky Mountain landscape

open access: yesArctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2019
Glaciers have significant influence on hydrology, vegetation, and wildlife in mountainous regions, and are receding globally. To quantify the impacts of sustained glacier loss, we mapped a complete set of glacier areas from the Little Ice Age (LIA) using
Chelsea J. Martin-Mikle, Daniel B. Fagre
doaj   +1 more source

Hydrology of a Polythermal Glacier, Erikbreen, Northern Spitsbergen

open access: yesHydrology Research, 1995
Glacial and glaciohydrologic processes that control the glaciofluvial sediment delivery from Erikbreen, a polythermal glacier on the north coast of Spitsbergen (79°40'N, 12°30'E), were studied during the summer seasons of 1990,1991 and 1992. Erikbreen differs from most glaciers of similar size in Svalbard, by the high flow velocity and a heavily ...
R. Strand Ødegård   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Assessing glacier retreat and landform production at the ‘debris-charged’ snout of Kvíárjökull, Iceland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Iceland is a critical location for the study of glacier fluctuations and landform production in response to climate change due to its diverse glacial legacy and its archive of aerial photographs that provide accurately dated records of glacier retreat ...
BENNETT, GEORGINA,LUCY
core  

A physically based calving model applied to marine outlet glaciers and implications for the glacier dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We present results from numerical ice-flow models that include calving criteria based on penetration of surface and basal crevasses, which in turn is a function of longitudinal strain rates near the glacier front.
Vieli, Andreas   +23 more
core   +1 more source

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