From the Subglacial Environment to the Coastal Ocean: Exploring Feedbacks Between Glacial Meltwater and Tidewater Glacier Dynamics.

• Main Author: Hager, Alexander
• Other Authors: Sutherland, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oregon 2023
• Subjects: Alaska; Antarctica; Glacial Fjords; Greenland; Ice-ocean Interactions; Tidewater Glaciers; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; glacier; glaciers; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/28089

Mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has accelerated in recent decades and is predicted to contribute < 40 cm of mean sea level rise in the 21st Century. However, there is significant uncertainty in projections of ice sheet mass balance arising from unknowns in the dynamic respon...