Calving prediction from ice mélange motion [News]

High-frequency radar tracking of icebergs floating in front of a glacier in Greenland show that movements of the ice mélange consistently increase before calving events, indicating that mélange has the potential to modulate calving.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Geoscience
Main Author: Vankova, Irena
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Nature Research 2021
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530434/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00752-x
Description
Summary:High-frequency radar tracking of icebergs floating in front of a glacier in Greenland show that movements of the ice mélange consistently increase before calving events, indicating that mélange has the potential to modulate calving.