Trickle or treat: the dynamics of nutrient export from polar glaciers

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Dubnick, Ashley, Wadham, Jemma, Tranter, Martyn, Sharp, Martin, Orwin, John, Barker, Joel, Bagshaw, Elizabeth, Fitzsimons, Sean
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Joyce Glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98359/; https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11149; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98359/1/Dubnick_et_al-2017-Hydrological_Processes.pdf

Cold-based polar glacier watersheds contain well-defined supraglacial, ice-marginal, and proglacial elements that differ in their degree of hydrologic connectivity, sources of water (e.g., snow, ice, and/or sediment pore water), meltwater residence times, allochthonous and autochthonous nutrient, an...