Melt-under-cutting and buoyancy-driven calving from tidewater glaciers: new insights from discrete element and continuum model simulations [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 2017 The simple calving laws currently used in ice-sheet models do not adequately reflect the complexity and diversity of calving processes. To be effective, calving laws must be grounded in a sound understanding of how calving actually works.
DOUGLAS I. BENN +7 more
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A century of variation in the dependence of Greenland iceberg calving on ice sheet surface mass balance and regional climate change. [PDF]
Proc Math Phys Eng Sci, 2014 Iceberg calving is a major component of the total mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS). A century-long record of Greenland icebergs comes from the International Ice Patrol's record of icebergs (I48N) passing latitude 48° N, off Newfoundland ...
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BREAK OUT OF A-76 ICEBERG AND RECENT DYNAMIC CHANGES OF ITS ENCOLSURE RIFTS IN RONNE ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Monitoring the stability of the Ronne Ice Shelf, particularly the calving event, is an integral and important part of the study of Antarctic ice sheet mass balance and sea-level rise. This paper presents the results of the analysis of the world’s largest
A. Zhao +15 more
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Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Iceberg calving accounts for up to half of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), with their size distributions providing insights into glacier calving dynamics and impacting fjord environments through their melting and subsequent freshwater ...
C. J. Shiggins, J. M. Lea, S. Brough
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Fragmentation theory reveals processes controlling iceberg size distributions
Journal of Glaciology, 2021 Iceberg calving strongly controls glacier mass loss, but the fracture processes leading to iceberg formation are poorly understood due to the stochastic nature of calving.
Jan Åström +5 more
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Iceberg Calving: Regimes and Transitions
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2023 Uncertainty about sea-level rise is dominated by uncertainty about iceberg calving, mass loss from glaciers or ice sheets by fracturing. Review of the rapidly growing calving literature leads to a few overarching hypotheses. Almost all calving occurs near or just downglacier of a location where ice flows into an environment more favorable for calving ...
R.B. Alley +8 more
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Identification of iceberg-forming ice quakes from seismic and infrasound data
Лëд и снег, 2021 The application of a joint method of recording seismic and infrasound signals generated during ice calving from the terminal part of the outlet glaciers to identify the process of iceberg formation is considered.
Yu. A. Vinogradov +4 more
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Quasi-static granular flow of ice mélange [PDF]
, 1936 We use Landsat 8 imagery to generate ice mélange velocity fields at Greenland’s three most productive outlet glaciers: Jakobshavn Isbræ, Helheim Glacier, and Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier.
Amundson, Jason M., Burton, J. C.
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Two Calving Laws for Grounded Iceberg-Calving Glaciers (Abstract only) [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 1983 Prediction of the future retreat of Columbia Glacier, Alaska, required a calving law for the boundary condition at the terminus. Qualitative observations on the variations of all major iceberg-calving glaciers of Alaska suggest that calving is high whenever glaciers terminate in deep water, and greatly reduced whenever they terminate in shallow water ...
C. S. Brown +4 more
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Automatic delineation of cracks with Sentinel-1 interferometry for monitoring ice shelf damage and calving [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Monitoring the evolution of ice shelf damage such as crevasses and rifts is important for a better understanding of the mechanisms controlling the breakup of ice shelves and for improving predictions about iceberg calving and ice shelf disintegration ...
L. Libert, J. Wuite, T. Nagler
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