Investigating the response of Greenland and Antarctic glaciers to atmospheric and oceanic forcings using a 1D flowline model

• Main Author: Petrakopoulos, Konstantinos
• Other Authors: Stearns, Leigh A., Tsoflias, George, Brookfield, Andrea E., Besson, Dave Z., van der Veen, Cornelis J.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Kansas 2017
• Subjects: Geomorphology; Glaciology; Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Glacier; East Antarctica; Greenland; Ross Ice Shelf; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26475; http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15535

Over the past two decades, the mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has contributed approximately 11.2 ~3.8 mm to global mean sea level, one third of the total sea level rise since the 1990s. The majority of this mass loss has come from the acceleration of tidewater outlet glaciers,...