Calving controlled by melt-under-cutting: detailed calving styles revealed through time-lapse observations

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: How, Penelope, Schild, Kristin, Benn, Douglas, Noormets, Riko, Kirchner, Nina, Luckman, Adrian, Vallot, Dorothée, Hulton, Nicholas, Borstad, Chris
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Svalbard; Tunabreen; Annals of Glaciology; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/137791/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/137791/1/phow_tunacalve_corrected_revisions3.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2018.28

Here, we present a highly detailed study of calving dynamics at Tunabreen, a tidewater glacier in Svalbard. A time-lapse camera was trained on the terminus and programmed to capture images every three seconds over a 28-hour period in August 2015, producing a highly detailed record of 34,117 images f...