Ice-Dammed Lake Drainage Evolution at Russell Glacier, West Greenland

KEY POINTS/HIGHLIGHTSTwo rapid ice-dammed lake drainage events gauged and ice dam geometry measured.A melt enlargement model is developed to examine the evolution of drainage mechanism(s).Lake temperature dominated conduit melt enlargement and we hypothesize a flotation trigger.Glaciological and hyd...

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Published in:Frontiers in Earth Science
Main Authors: Jonathan L. Carrivick, Fiona S. Tweed, Felix Ng, Duncan J. Quincey, Joseph Mallalieu, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen, Andreas B. Mikkelsen, Steven J. Palmer, Jacob C. Yde, Rachel Homer, Andrew J. Russell, Alun Hubbard
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
Subjects:
ice-marginal lake
proglacial lake
glacier lake
jökulhlaup
GLOF
Science
Q
Greenland
Dammed Lake
Marginal Lake
glacier
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00100
https://doaj.org/article/6d61ae6fe7a84373b4cce24a843bf15d

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