Glacial melt under a porous debris layer

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Evatt, Geoffrey W., Abrahams, David, Heil, Matthias, Mayer, Christoph, Kingslake, Jonathan, Mitchell, Sarah L., Fowler, Andrew C., Clark, Christopher D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2015
• Subjects: Nicholson; Østrem; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512051/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512051/1/s2.pdf

In this paper we undertake a quantitative analysis of the dynamic process by which ice underneath a dry porous debris layer melts. We show that the incorporation of debris-layer airflow into a theoretical model of glacial melting can capture the empirically observed features of the so-called Østrem...