Stress-gradient coupling in glacier flow: I. Longitudinal averaging of the influence of ice thickness and surface slope

• Main Authors: Kamb, Barclay, Echelmeyer, Keith A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 1986
• Subjects: Blue Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Journal of Glaciology; Alaska
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/49684/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/49684/1/Kamb_1986p267.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140915-081135893

For a glacier flowing over a bed of longitudinally varying slope, the influence of longitudinal stress gradients on the flow is analyzed by means of a longitudinal flow-coupling equation derived from the "vertically" (cross-sectionally) integrated longitudinal stress equilibrium equation,...