Terminus-driven retreat of a major southwest Greenland tidewater glacier during the early 19th century: insights from glacier reconstructions and numerical modelling

• Main Authors: Lea, James M, Mair, Douglas WF, Nick, Faezeh M, Rea, Brice R, Weidick, Anker, Kjaer, Kurt H, Morlighem, Mathieu, van As, Dirk, Schofield, J Edward
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Nuuk; glacier; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; Journal of Glaciology; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000089/; http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000089/1/Lea_et_al_2014_JGlac_KNS.pdf; http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000089/2/repository-policy-2016-03-31.pdf

Tidewater glaciers in Greenland experienced widespread retreat during the last century. Information on their behaviour prior to this is often poorly constrained due to lack of observations, while determining the drivers prior to instrumental records is also problematic. Here we present a record of t...