Basal buoyancy and fast-moving glaciers: in defense of analytic force balance

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Author: C. J. van der Veen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: geo; envir; Byrd; Byrd Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1331-2016; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/1331/2016/tc-10-1331-2016.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/c2d695babbce42d8aeb2728df9cea46e

The geometric approach to force balance advocated by T. Hughes in a series of publications has challenged the analytic approach by implying that the latter does not adequately account for basal buoyancy on ice streams, thereby neglecting the contribution to the gravitational driving force associated...