Importance of basal boundary conditions in transient simulations:Case study of a surging marine-terminating glacier on Austfonna, Svalbard

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Gong, Yongmei, Zwinger, Thomas, Cornford, Stephen L., Gladstone, Rupert, Schäfer, Martina, Moore, John C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/1/17/1; name=Geosciences; Austfonna; Svalbard; glacier; Ice cap; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/e3be261a-3022-4898-ab7a-eed306014b0b; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.121

We assess the importance of basal boundary conditions for transient simulations of Basin 3, Austfonna ice cap between January 1995 and December 2011 and for the surge starting in 2012 by carrying out simulations with the full-Stokes model Elmer/Ice and the vertically-integrated model BISICLES. Time-...