Hydraulic suppression of basal glacier melt in sill fjords

• Main Authors: Nilsson, Johan, van Dongen, Eef, Jakobsson, Martin, O'Regan, Matt, Stranne, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Greenland; Ryder; glacier; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1218; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00063821; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-1218/egusphere-2022-1218.pdf

Using a conceptual model, we examine how hydraulically-controlled exchange flows in silled fjords affect the relationship between the basal glacier melt and the features of warm intermediate Atlantic Water (AW) outside the fjords. We show that an exchange flow can be forced to transit into the hydra...