Modelling calving front dynamics using a level-set method: application to Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland

• Main Authors: Bondzio, Johannes H, Seroussi, Hélène, Morlighem, Mathieu, Kleiner, Thomas, Rückamp, Martin, Humbert, Angelika, Larour, Eric Y
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Climate Action; Oceanography; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Antarctic; Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; The Antarctic; Antarc*; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mn322bm

Calving is a major mechanism of ice discharge of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a change in calving front position affects the entire stress regime of marine terminating glaciers. The representation of calving front dynamics in a 2-D or 3-D ice sheet model remains non-trivial. Here, we...