Sensitivity of subglacial drainage to water supply distribution at the Kongsfjord basin, Svalbard

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Scholzen, Chloé Elisabeth, Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar, Gilbert, Adrien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications under license by EGU – European Geosciences Union GmbH 2021
• Subjects: Kongsfjord; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; glacier; Kongsfjord*; The Cryosphere; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/92042; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-94633; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2719-2021

By regulating the amount, the timing, and the location of meltwater supply to the glacier bed, supraglacial hydrology potentially exerts a major control on the evolution of the subglacial drainage system, which in turn modulates ice velocity. Yet the configuration of the supraglacial hydrological sy...