A cross-validated three-dimensional model of an englacial and subglacial drainage system in a High-Arctic glacier

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Hansen, Lena U., Piotrowski, Jan A., Benn, Douglas, Sevestre, Heidi
• Other Authors: University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic glaciology; Glacier hydrology; Ground-penetrating radar; QE Geology; NDAS; QE; Arctic; Longyearbreen; Svalbard; glacier; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19847; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.1

The project was supported by the Danish Geological Society and the Arctic Research and Technology Society. Recent speleological surveys of meltwater drainage systems in cold and polythermal glaciers have documented dynamic englacial and in some cases subglacial conduits formed by the ‘cut-and-closur...