Numerical Modeling Shows Increased Fracturing Due to Melt-Undercutting Prior to Major Calving at Bowdoin Glacier

• Main Authors: van Dongen, Eef, Åström, Jan A., Jouvet, Guillaume, Todd, Joe, Benn, Douglas I., Funk, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2020
• Subjects: Glacier modeling; Iceberg calving; Numerical modeling; Submarine melt; Undercutting; Crevasses; Northwest Greenland; Bowdoin; Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/430415; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000430415

Projections of future ice sheet mass loss and thus sea level rise rely on the parametrization of iceberg calving in ice sheet models. The interconnection between submarine melt-induced undercutting and calving is still poorly understood, which makes predicted contributions of tidewater glaciers to s...