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

• Main Authors: Church, Gregory James, Bauder, Andreas, Grab, Melchior, Rabenstein, Lasse, Singh, Satyan, Maurer, Hansruedi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2019
• Subjects: glacier geophysics; glacier hydrology; ground-penetrating radar; mountain glaciers; seismics; Rhone; Rhone Glacier; Annals of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/359148; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000359148

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...