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Ice flow dynamics of the northwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere
Reconstructions of palaeo-ice-stream activity provide insight into the processes governing ice stream evolution over millennial timescales. The northwestern sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet experienced a period of rapid retreat driven by warming during
B. J. Stoker   +11 more
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Comparing numerical ice-sheet model output with radio-echo sounding measurements in the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctica

open access: yesAnnals of Glaciology, 2020
Numerical ice-sheet models are commonly matched to surface ice velocities from InSAR measurements by modifying basal drag, allowing the flow and form of the ice sheet to be simulated. Geophysical measurements of the bed are rarely used to examine if this
Hafeez Jeofry   +2 more
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The role of subglacial hydrology in ice streams with elevated geothermal heat flux

open access: yesJournal of Glaciology, 2020
The spatial distribution of geothermal heat flux (GHF) under ice sheets is largely unknown. Nonetheless, it is an important boundary condition in ice-sheet models, and suggested to control part of the complex surface velocity patterns observed in some ...
Silje Smith-Johnsen   +2 more
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Footprint of the Baltic Ice Stream: geomorphic evidence for shifting ice stream pathways

open access: yesBoreas, 2023
The Baltic Ice Stream, a large fast‐flowing sector of the last Fennoscandian Ice Sheet that occupied the present‐day Baltic Sea basin, was first conceptualized in the earliest days of glacial geological research in Scandinavia. Landform and sedimentological evidence from the terrestrial margins support the concept and numerical ice‐sheet models ...
Sarah L. Greenwood   +4 more
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Subglacial hydrology regulates oscillations in marine ice streams [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere
Marine ice stream dynamics are sensitive to conditions at the grounding line and basal shear stress. Variations in subglacial hydrology have been implicated in ice stream speed-up and shutdown.
M. Haseloff, I. J. Hewitt, R. F. Katz
doaj   +1 more source

Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2018
Uncertainties in future sea level projections are dominated by our limited understanding of the dynamical processes that control instabilities of marine ice sheets. The last deglaciation of the British–Irish Ice Sheet offers a valuable example to examine
N. Gandy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ice stream formation

open access: yes, 2021
<div>Ice streams are the arteries through which a large fraction of the ice lost from Antarctica is discharged. With the introduction of "higher order" mechanics, the representation of ice streams in ice sheet models appears to have become more robust, eliminating previously ubiquitous grid effects.
Christian Schoof, Elisa Mantelli
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Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2014
The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) is the sole interior Greenlandic ice stream. Fast flow initiates near the summit dome, and the ice stream terminates approximately 1000 km downstream in three large outlet glaciers that calve into the Greenland ...
P. Vallelonga   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Antarctic subglacial lake filling and drainage cycles [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2016
The growth and drainage of active subglacial lakes in Antarctica has previously been inferred from analysis of ice surface altimetry data. We use a subglacial hydrology model applied to a synthetic Antarctic ice stream to examine internal controls on the
C. F. Dow   +3 more
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Frequency response of ice streams [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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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