Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Bevan, Suzanne L., Luckman, Adrian J., Benn, Douglas I., Cowton, Tom, Todd, Joe
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Sea ice; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2303-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/2303/2019/

By the end of 2018 Kangerlussuaq Glacier in southeast Greenland had retreated further inland than at any time in the past 80 years and its terminus was approaching a region of retrograde bed slope from where further rapid retreat would have been inevitable. Here we show that the retreat occurred bec...