Basal dynamics of Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard:non-local spatio-temporal response to water input

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Vallot, Dorothée, Pettersson, Rickard, Luckman, Adrian, Benn, Douglas I., Zwinger, Thomas, van Pelt, Ward J. J., Kohler, Jack, Schäfer, Martina, Claremar, Björn, Hulton, Nicholas R. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic glaciology; Glacier modelling; Ice dynamics; Ice velocity; Subglacial processes; Arctic; Kronebreen; Svalbard; glacier; Journal of Glaciology; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/basal-dynamics-of-kronebreen-a-fastflowing-tidewater-glacier-in-svalbard(722ad197-3b37-4d8b-be06-59de89e713a1).html; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.69; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/12282/1/Benn_2017_JG_Kronebreen_CC.pdf

We evaluate the variability in basal friction for Kronebreen, Svalbard, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier. We invert 3 years (2013–15) of surface velocities at high temporal resolution (generally 11 days), to estimate the changing basal properties of the glacier. Our results suggest that sliding beha...