Blink and You'll Miss It: An Investigation into Surging on Flade Isblink, Greenland ...
Mass loss from fringing ice caps and glaciers in Greenland accounted for 20% of the ice sheet’s mass loss between 2003 and 2008 and could be responsible for up to 11 mm of sea- level rise by the end of the century. This study therefore applies a 3D, full-Stokes glaciological flow model, Elmer/Ice, t...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.9069 2024-09-15T18:07:42+00:00 Blink and You'll Miss It: An Investigation into Surging on Flade Isblink, Greenland ... Cook, Samuel James 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.9069 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263707 en eng Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge open.access https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ All Rights Reserved No Creative Commons licence (All rights reserved) http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Glacier Surging Greenland Flade Isblink Ice Cap Ice Sheet Dynamics Dissertation thesis Thesis 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.9069 2024-07-03T13:13:19Z Mass loss from fringing ice caps and glaciers in Greenland accounted for 20% of the ice sheet’s mass loss between 2003 and 2008 and could be responsible for up to 11 mm of sea- level rise by the end of the century. This study therefore applies a 3D, full-Stokes glaciological flow model, Elmer/Ice, to Flade Isblink, the largest fringing ice cap in Greenland, to investigate its basal conditions and the mechanism of a surge of two of its major outlet glaciers observed around the turn of the millennium. The results show that the ice cap is largely cold-based outside areas of fast flow, but that freezing also dominates in sliding areas. This implies an additional hydrological or heat input to allow the persistence of fast flow, the most likely candidate being surface meltwater and the associated latent heat release, leading to cryo-hydrologic warming. Model results indicate that the surge mechanism is a soft-bed thermal surge assisted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback, with an estimated return period of 20-43 ... Thesis glacier Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet DataCite |
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Mass loss from fringing ice caps and glaciers in Greenland accounted for 20% of the ice sheet’s mass loss between 2003 and 2008 and could be responsible for up to 11 mm of sea- level rise by the end of the century. This study therefore applies a 3D, full-Stokes glaciological flow model, Elmer/Ice, to Flade Isblink, the largest fringing ice cap in Greenland, to investigate its basal conditions and the mechanism of a surge of two of its major outlet glaciers observed around the turn of the millennium. The results show that the ice cap is largely cold-based outside areas of fast flow, but that freezing also dominates in sliding areas. This implies an additional hydrological or heat input to allow the persistence of fast flow, the most likely candidate being surface meltwater and the associated latent heat release, leading to cryo-hydrologic warming. Model results indicate that the surge mechanism is a soft-bed thermal surge assisted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback, with an estimated return period of 20-43 ... |
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Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge |
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