Tidewater glacier surges initiated at the terminus

There have been numerous reports that surges of tidewater glaciers in Svalbard were initiated at the terminus and propagated up‐glacier, in contrast with downglacier‐propagating surges of land‐terminating glaciers. Most of these surges were poorly documented, and the cause of this behavior was unkno...

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Published in:Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Main Authors: Sevestre, Heïdi, Benn, Douglas I., Luckman, Adrian, Nuth, Christopher, Kohler, Jack, Lindbäck, Katrin, Pettersson, Rickard
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/tidewater-glacier-surges-initiated-at-the-terminus(4eb24f26-fac0-4d77-b48a-f73c25088566).html
https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004358
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/16328/1/Benn_2018_JGRES_Tidewater_VoR.pdf