Sensitivity of subglacial drainage to water supply distribution at the Kongsfjord basin, Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: C. Scholzen, T. V. Schuler, A. Gilbert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Kongsfjord; glacier; Kongsfjord*; The Cryosphere; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2719-2021; https://doaj.org/article/9db6ff133dce41be9eedad1ed5839575

By regulating the amount, the timing, and the location of meltwater supply to the glacier bed, supraglacial hydrology potentially exerts a major control on the evolution of the subglacial drainage system, which in turn modulates ice velocity. Yet the configuration of the supraglacial hydrological sy...