A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets
Glacier flow modulates sea level and is governed largely by the viscous deformation of ice. Multiple molecular-scale mechanisms facilitate viscous deformation, but it remains unclear how each contributes to glacier-scale deformation. Here, we present a model of ice deformation that bridges laborator...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/155148 2024-10-13T14:01:38+00:00 A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets Ranganathan, Meghana Minchew, Brent 2024-05-30 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155148 en_US eng Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.2309788121 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155148 Ranganathan, Meghana and Minchew, Brent. 2024. "A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets." 121 (23). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License An error occurred on the license name. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ MIT News Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2024 ftmit 2024-09-25T14:16:37Z Glacier flow modulates sea level and is governed largely by the viscous deformation of ice. Multiple molecular-scale mechanisms facilitate viscous deformation, but it remains unclear how each contributes to glacier-scale deformation. Here, we present a model of ice deformation that bridges laboratory and glacier scales, unifies existing estimates of the viscous parameters, and provides a framework for estimating the parameters from observations and incorporating flow laws derived from laboratory observations into glacier-flow models. Our results yield a map of the dominant deformation mechanisms in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, showing that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, dislocation creep, characterized by a value of the stress exponent, likely dominates in all fast-flowing areas. This increase from the canonical value of dramatically alters the climate conditions under which marine ice sheets may become unstable and drive rapid rates of sea-level rise. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Glacier flow modulates sea level and is governed largely by the viscous deformation of ice. Multiple molecular-scale mechanisms facilitate viscous deformation, but it remains unclear how each contributes to glacier-scale deformation. Here, we present a model of ice deformation that bridges laboratory and glacier scales, unifies existing estimates of the viscous parameters, and provides a framework for estimating the parameters from observations and incorporating flow laws derived from laboratory observations into glacier-flow models. Our results yield a map of the dominant deformation mechanisms in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, showing that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, dislocation creep, characterized by a value of the stress exponent, likely dominates in all fast-flowing areas. This increase from the canonical value of dramatically alters the climate conditions under which marine ice sheets may become unstable and drive rapid rates of sea-level rise. |
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A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets |
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A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets |
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A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets |
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modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: scaling from laboratories to ice sheets |
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10.1073/pnas.2309788121 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155148 Ranganathan, Meghana and Minchew, Brent. 2024. "A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets." 121 (23). |
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