Incorporation of rheological properties into ice sheet flow models

• Main Author: Wang, WL
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Glaciology; Ice sheets; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Law Dome; Law Dome Summit; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22061/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22061/1/whole_WangWeiLi2000_thesis.pdf

In most current ice sheet models the rheological properties of ice are usually assumed to be either isotropic or some effects of anisotropy are taken into account by the use of a simple constant enhancement factor. Studies of ice cores have shown that in natural ice sheets approximately isotropic ic...