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Ice-sheet surging and ice-stream formation [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 1996 A simplified model of ice-sheet behaviour is described. It combines the assumptions of rapid ice flow, high viscous activation energy and realistic sediment-based sliding dynamics to form a non-linear diffusion-type equation which can display relaxation oscillations analogous to those of surging glaciers, and which may be relevant to large-scale surges
A. C. Fowler, Clare Johnson
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Sensitivity of Heinrich-type ice-sheet surge characteristics to boundary forcing perturbations [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 Heinrich-type ice-sheet surges are one of the prominent signals of glacial climate variability. They are characterised as abrupt, quasi-periodic episodes of ice-sheet instabilities during which large numbers of icebergs are released from the Laurentide ...
C. Schannwell +3 more
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Ice flow in the northeast Greenland ice stream [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2000 AbstractWe have measured ice flow and detailed topography in northeastern Greenland using satellite-based synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) interferometry. The subject of this study is the large ice stream that drains this quadrant of the ice sheet. A single SAR interferogram allows the measurement of one component of motion over a several-day-long ...
Ian Joughin +2 more
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Shear-margin melting causes stronger transient ice discharge than ice-stream melting in idealized simulations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Basal ice-shelf melting is the key driver of Antarctica's increasing sea-level contribution. In diminishing the buttressing force of the ice shelves that fringe the ice sheet, the melting increases the ice discharge into the ocean.
J. Feldmann +7 more
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Holocene ice-stream shutdown and drainage basin reconfiguration in northeast Greenland
Nature Geoscience, 2022 Reliable knowledge of ice discharge dynamics for the Greenland ice sheet via its ice streams is essential if we are to understand its stability under future climate scenarios.
S. Franke +11 more
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A dynamic saline groundwater system mapped beneath an Antarctic ice stream
Science, 2022 Antarctica’s fast-flowing ice streams drain the ice sheet, with their velocity modulated by subglacial water systems. Current knowledge of these water systems is limited to the shallow portions near the ice-bed interface, but hypothesized deeper ...
C. Gustafson +6 more
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Modeling the elastic transmission of tidal stresses to great distances inland in channelized ice streams [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2014 Geodetic surveys suggest that ocean tides can modulate the motion of Antarctic ice streams, even at stations many tens of kilometers inland from the grounding line.
J. Thompson, M. Simons, V. C. Tsai
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Radar attenuation demonstrates advective cooling in the Siple Coast ice streams
Journal of Glaciology, 2023 Ice streams are warmed by shear strain, both vertical shear near the bed and lateral shear at the margins. Warm ice deforms more easily, establishing a positive feedback loop in an ice stream where fast flow leads to warm ice and then to even faster flow.
Benjamin H. Hills +4 more
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Antarctic palaeo-ice streams [PDF]
Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 We review the geomorphological, sedimentological and chronological evidence for palaeo-ice streams on the continental shelf of Antarctica and use this information to investigate basal conditions and processes, and to identify factors controlling grounding-line retreat.
Livingstone, Stephen J. +5 more
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Frequency response of ice streams [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2012 Changes at the grounding line of ice streams have consequences for inland ice dynamics and hence sea level. Despite substantial evidence documenting upstream propagation of frontal change, the mechanisms by which these changes are transmitted inland are not well understood.
Williams +3 more
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