Frequency response of ice streams. [PDF]
Proc Math Phys Eng Sci, 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 CR, Hindmarsh RC, Arthern RJ.
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Ice-stream flow switching by up-ice propagation of instabilities along glacial marginal troughs [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Ice-stream networks constitute the arteries of ice sheets through which large volumes of glacial ice are rapidly delivered from the continent to the ocean.
E. Brouard, P. Lajeunesse
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Subglacial hydrological control on flow of an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Basal hydrological systems play an important role in controlling the dynamic behaviour of ice streams. Data showing their morphology and relationship to geological substrates beneath modern ice streams are, however, sparse and difficult to collect.
R. D. Larter +13 more
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Journal of Glaciology, 2023 Investigations of the time-dependent behavior of marine ice sheets and their sensitivity to basal conditions require numerical models because existing theoretical analyses focus only on steady-state configurations primarily with a power-law basal shear ...
Olga Sergienko, Marianne Haseloff
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Modelled subglacial floods and tunnel valleys control the life cycle of transitory ice streams [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Ice streams are corridors of fast-flowing ice that control mass transfers from continental ice sheets to oceans. Their flow speeds are known to accelerate and decelerate, their activity can switch on and off, and even their locations can shift ...
T. Lelandais +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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Bed topography and marine ice-sheet stability
Journal of Glaciology, 2022 This paper examines the effect of basal topography and strength on the grounding-line position, flux and stability of rapidly-sliding ice streams.
Olga V. Sergienko, Duncan J. Wingham
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Repeated ice streaming on the northwest Greenland continental shelf since the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Transition [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Ice streams provide a fundamental control on ice sheet discharge and depositional patterns along glaciated margins. This paper investigates ancient ice streams by presenting the first 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of a major glacigenic succession ...
A. M. W. Newton +4 more
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Sensitivity of the Weddell Sea sector ice streams to sub-shelf melting and surface accumulation [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2014 A recent ocean modelling study indicates that possible changes in circulation may bring warm deep-ocean water into direct contact with the grounding lines of the Filchner–Ronne ice streams, suggesting the potential for future ice losses from this sector ...
A. P. Wright +10 more
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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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