Contribution of Crevasse Advection and Mixed Mode Calving to Glacier Dynamics ...
Modeling of the climate system including, but not limited to, atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics, and ice dynamics, is one of the crucial scientific problems of the 21st century. This work focuses on modeling of iceberg calving, the process by which high stresses within ice cause fractures and eve...
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| Language: | English |
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My University
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/3043 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169998 |
| Summary: | Modeling of the climate system including, but not limited to, atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics, and ice dynamics, is one of the crucial scientific problems of the 21st century. This work focuses on modeling of iceberg calving, the process by which high stresses within ice cause fractures and eventual detachment of icebergs from glaciers. Iceberg calving causes approximately half of mass loss of the world's glaciers, but remains poorly understood and implemented in climate models. Existing model implementations of calving exist at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, ranging from models that seek to resolve crevasse propagation on the scale of seconds or minutes to broad parameterizations of calving implemented in ice sheet scale climate models. In this work, we seek to develop an intermediate model that can run for year to decade timescales and determines calving based on the internal stresses within the ice. We first focus on crevasse advection, the memory of previously formed crevasses within ... |
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