Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier

By the end of 2018 Kangerlussuaq Glacier in southeast Greenland had retreated further inland than at any time in the past 80 years and its terminus was approaching a region of retrograde bed slope from where further rapid retreat would have been inevitable. Here we show that the retreat occurred bec...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Bevan, Suzanne, Luckman, Adrian, Benn, Douglas I., Cowton, Tom, Todd, Joe
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Greenland
Kangerlussuaq
glacier
Sea ice
The Cryosphere
Tidewater
Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/impact-of-warming-shelf-waters-on-ice-melange-and-terminus-retreat-at-a-large-se-greenland-glacier(22869638-0e65-4794-9204-c7ea3f8c0a0a).html
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2303-2019
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/18508/1/Bevan_2019_Cryosphere_Warming_CC.pdf

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