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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.
Andreas Vieli +2 more
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Ice Streams of the Laurentide Ice Sheet [PDF]
Géographie physique et Quaternaire, 2006 Ice streams had a major influence on the configuration and the stability of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Their identification is crucial for an understanding of ice sheet behaviour and their importance is reflected by the recent increase in paleo-ice stream research.
Winsborrow, Monica C.M. +2 more
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Stochastic Ice Stream Dynamics [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Significance Ice streams form the backbone of the flow field of ice sheets. They are known to exhibit a complex spatiotemporal dynamics, which is largely not well understood. Understanding the controls on such dynamics is crucial to sea level change projections as well as to the interpretation of paleorecords.
Elisa Mantelli +2 more
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A new approach to inferring basal drag and ice rheology in ice streams, with applications to West Antarctic Ice Streams [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 2021 Drag at the bed and along the lateral margins are the primary forces resisting flow in outlet glaciers. Simultaneously inferring these parameters is challenging since basal drag and ice viscosity are coupled in the momentum balance, which governs ice ...
Meghana Ranganathan +3 more
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Subglacial Hydrology and the Formation of Ice Streams [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2014 Antarctic ice streams are associated with pressurized subglacial meltwater but the role this water plays in the dynamics of the streams is not known. To address this, we present a model of subglacial water flow below ice sheets, and particularly below ice streams.
Richard F. Katz, A C Fowler
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Chaotic variability in a model of coupled ice streams [PDF]
Regions of fast-flowing ice in ice sheets, known as ice streams, have been theorized to be able to exhibit build-up/surge oscillatory variability due to thermomechanical coupling at the base of the ice.
Peter Ditlevsen (21829829) +2 more
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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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