A Numerical Model Investigation of the Role of the Glacier Bed in Regulating Grounding Line Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

• Main Author: Waibel, Michael Scott
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Portland State University 2017
• Subjects: Geology|Environmental science; Antarctic; Goff; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10259298

I examine how two different realizations of bed morphology affect Thwaites Glacier response to ocean warming through the initiation of marine ice sheet instability and associated grounding line retreat. A state of the art numerical ice sheet model is used for this purpose. The bed configurations use...