A 3-D thermal regime model suitable for cold accumulation zones of polythermal mountain glaciers

• Main Authors: Gilbert, A., Gagliardini, O., Vincent, C., /Wagnon, Patrick
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: cold glacier; thermal regime; glacier thermo-mechanical modeling; firn; rheology; climate change; Mont Blanc; Dome Glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010062661

Analysis of the thermal and mechanical response of high altitude glaciers to climate change is crucial to assess future glacier hazards associated with thermal regime changes. This paper presents a new fully thermo-mechanically coupled transient thermal regime model including enthalpy transport, fir...