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Frequency response of ice streams. [PDF]
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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Subglacial hydrology and the formation of ice streams [PDF]
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 Katz, A C Fowler
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Ice Streams of the Laurentide Ice Sheet [PDF]
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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Antarctic palaeo-ice streams [PDF]
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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A new approach to inferring basal drag and ice rheology in ice streams, with applications to West Antarctic Ice Streams [PDF]
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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Contrasting the modelled sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea Embayment ice streams [PDF]
Present-day mass loss from the West Antarctic ice sheet is centred on the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), primarily through ice streams, including Pine Island, Thwaites and Smith glaciers.
ISABEL J. NIAS +2 more
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Ice-stream flow switching by up-ice propagation of instabilities along glacial marginal troughs [PDF]
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]
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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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]
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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