Detecting and characterising an englacial conduit network within a temperate Swiss glacier using active seismic, ground penetrating radar and borehole analysis

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Gregory Church, Andreas Bauder, Melchior Grab, Lasse Rabenstein, Satyan Singh, Hansruedi Maurer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
• Subjects: glacier geophysics; glacier hydrology; ground-penetrating radar; mountain glaciers; seismics; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Rhone; Rhone Glacier; Annals of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2019.19; https://doaj.org/article/ecdffb3ec3444814b16e4414c00858f6

Englacial hydrology plays an important role in routing surface water to the glacier's bed and it consequently affects the glacier's dynamics. However, it is often difficult to observe englacial conduit conditions on temperate glaciers because of their short-lived nature. We acquired repeat...