Numerical modeling shows increased fracturing due to melt-undercutting prior to major calving at Bowdoin Glacier

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: van Dongen, Eef C. H., Åström, Jan A., Jouvet, Guillaume, Todd, Joe, Benn, Douglas I., Funk, Martin
• Other Authors: NERC, University of St Andrews.School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute, University of St Andrews.Environmental Change Research Group
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Glacier modeling; Iceberg calving; Numerical modeling; Submarine melt; Undercutting; Crevasses; Northwest Greenland; G Geography (General); DAS; G1; glacier; Greenland; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20268; https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00253

This research was part of the Sun2ice project (ETH Grant ETH-12 16-2), supported by the Dr. Alfred and Flora Spälti and the ETH Zurich Foundation. Fieldwork was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant 200021-153179/1. The HiDEM simulations were performed under the Project HPC-EUROPA3...