A glacier-ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Wolper, Joshuah, Gao, Ming, Luthi, Martin P., Heller, Valentin, Vieli, Andreas, Jiang, Chenfanfu, Gaume, Johan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: London, SPRINGERNATURE 2021
• Subjects: Eqip Sermia; Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00179-7; https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/287384/files/s43247-021-00179-7.pdf; http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/287384

Dynamic glacier fracture and the subsequent generation and propagation of iceberg-induced tsunamis are reproduced using a unified numerical glacier-ocean model, in line with observations at the Eqip Sermia glacier in Greenland, as well as laboratory experiments. Glaciers calving icebergs into the oc...