Debris cover and surface melt at a temperate maritime alpine glacier: Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2012 Melt rates on glaciers are strongly influenced by the presence of supraglacial debris, which can either enhance or reduce ablation relative to bare ice.
Brook, Martin S. +5 more
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A physically based calving model applied to marine outlet glaciers and implications for the glacier dynamics [PDF]
, 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 +22 more
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Meteorology and surface energy fluxes in the 2005–2007 ablation seasons at the Miage debris-covered glacier, Mont Blanc Massif, Italian Alps [PDF]
, 2010 During the 2005–2007 June–September ablation seasons, meteorological conditions were recorded on the lower and upper parts of the debris‐covered ablation zone of Miage Glacier, Italy. In 2005, debris temperature and subdebris ice melt were also monitored
Mihalcea, Claudia +14 more
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Hydrological controls on diurnal ice flow variability in valley glaciers [PDF]
, 2005 This paper uses a combination of field data and three-dimensional modeling to investigate the spatial variability in basal conditions required to induce observed fluctuations in diurnal ice velocity at Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland.
Hubbard, A. L. +6 more
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Air temperature distribution and energy balance modelling of a debris-covered glacier [PDF]
, 2016 Near-surface air temperature is an important determinant of the surface energy balance of glaciers that is often represented by constant linear temperature gradients in models.
Brock, B.W. +13 more
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Long-wavelength Pol-InSAR for glacier ice extinction estimation [PDF]
, 2010 In recent years there has been increased interest in using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to study and monitor glaciers for climate change research.
Papathanassiou, Kostas +4 more
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A Model of a Surging Glacier [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 1972 Abstract As the cause of a surge we assume a sudden improvement of the sliding conditions at the glacier bed. This improvement has the same effect on the behaviour of the glacier as an equivalent variation of the annual balance. We are therefore able to apply Nye’s (1963) theory of the advance and retreat of glaciers to our problem. A
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Estimation of glacier ice extinction using long-wavelength airborne Pol-InSAR [PDF]
, 2013 In recent years there has been increased interest in using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to study and monitor glaciers and ice sheets for glaciological and climate change research.
Sharma, Jayanti +3 more
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Inversion of a glacier hydrology model [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2016 ABSTRACTThe subglacial hydrologic system exerts strong controls on the dynamics of the overlying ice, yet the parameters that govern the evolution of this system are not widely known or observable. To gain a better understanding of these parameters, we invert a spatially averaged model of subglacial hydrology from observations of ice surface velocity ...
Douglas J. Brinkerhoff +4 more
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Crevasses triggered on Pine Island Glacier by drilling through an exceptional melt layer [PDF]
, 2010 The basic theory of crevasse formation suggests that crevasses initiate at or near the surface. However, due to variations in stress with depth, it has been suggested that it is possible for crevasses to initiate at depths of 10–30m.
Julian B. T. Scott +11 more
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