Rock glaciers on the run – understanding rock glacier landform evolution and recent changes from numerical flow modeling [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2016 Rock glaciers are landforms that form as a result of creeping mountain permafrost which have received considerable attention concerning their dynamical and thermal changes.
J. Müller, A. Vieli, I. Gärtner-Roer
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A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding
Journal of Glaciology, 2022 Changes in water pressure at the beds of glaciers greatly modify their sliding rate, affecting rates of ice mass loss and sea level change. However, there is still no agreement about the physics of subglacial sliding or how water affects it.
Victor C. Tsai +3 more
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Meltwater Intrusions Reveal Mechanisms for Rapid Submarine Melt at a Tidewater Glacier [PDF]
, 2019 Submarine melting has been implicated as a driver of glacier retreat and sea level rise, but to date melting has been difficult to observe and quantify. As a result, melt rates have been estimated from parameterizations that are largely unconstrained by ...
Amundson, Jason M. +8 more
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Modeling Ablation on Place Glacier, British Columbia, from Glacier and Off-glacier Data Sets [PDF]
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2009 Abstract The results of two simulations of hourly ablation, from late July to September 2002, at a site on the Place Glacier are described. First, ablation is modeled from a data set collected at the glacier site; second, from a data set collected off-glacier at a site below the glacier tongue.
D. Scott Munro, Marzena Marosz-Wantuch
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Annals of Glaciology, 2016 Neighboring tidewater glaciers often exhibit asynchronous dynamic behavior, despite relatively uniform regional atmospheric and oceanic forcings. This variability may be controlled by a combination of local factors, including glacier and fjord geometry ...
Timothy C. Bartholomaus +11 more
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Including debris cover effects in a distributed model of glacier ablation [PDF]
, 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.
Andersen +48 more
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A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Statistical Model Motivated by Glaciology [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, we extend and analyze a Bayesian hierarchical spatio-temporal model for physical systems. A novelty is to model the discrepancy between the output of a computer simulator for a physical process and the actual process values with a ...
Aðalgeirsdóttir, Guðfinna +6 more
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Suitability of a constant air temperature lapse rate over an Alpine glacier: testing the Greuell and Böhm model as an alternative [PDF]
, 2013 Near-surface air temperature, typically measured at a height of 2 m, is the most important control on the energy exchange and the melt rate at a snow or ice surface.
Ben Brock +6 more
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Estimating the characteristics of runoff inflow into Lake Gojal in ungauged, highly glacierized upper Hunza River Basin, Pakistan [PDF]
, 2013 Motivated by the potential flood outburst of Lake Gojal in the ungauged highly glacierized (27%) upper Hunza River Basin (HRB) in Pakistan that was dammed by a massive landslide on 4 January 2010, we attempt to analyze the characteristics of water inflow
Hagemann, S. +3 more
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Controls on the diurnal streamflow cycles in two subbasins of an alpine headwater catchment [PDF]
, 2015 In high-altitude alpine catchments, diurnal streamflow cycles are typically dominated by snowmelt or ice melt. Evapotranspiration-induced diurnal streamflow cycles are less observed in these catchments but might happen simultaneously.
Barnard +66 more
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