Importance of basal boundary conditions in transient simulations: case study of a surging marine-terminating glacier on Austfonna, Svalbard

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: YONGMEI GONG, THOMAS ZWINGER, STEPHEN CORNFORD, RUPERT GLADSTONE, MARTINA SCHÄFER, JOHN C. MOORE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: basal sliding; glacial modeling; transient simulation; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Svalbard; Austfonna; glacier; Ice cap; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.121; https://doaj.org/article/180a7ed8eaa84c11937a1762165d3a4e

We assess the importance of basal boundary conditions for transient simulations of Basin 3, Austfonna ice cap between January 1995 and December 2011 and for the surge starting in 2012 by carrying out simulations with the full-Stokes model Elmer/Ice and the vertically-integrated model BISICLES. Time-...