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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-911-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-911-2017
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12 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 12 Apr 2017

Initiation of a major calving event on the Bowdoin Glacier captured by UAV photogrammetry

Guillaume Jouvet, Yvo Weidmann, Julien Seguinot, Martin Funk, Takahiro Abe, Daiki Sakakibara, Hakime Seddik, and Shin Sugiyama

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In this study, we combine UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) images taken over the Bowdoin Glacier, north-western Greenland, and a model describing the viscous motion of ice to track the propagation of crevasses responsible for the collapse of large icebergs at the glacier-ocean front (calving). This new technique allows us to explain the systematic calving pattern observed in spring and summer of 2015 and anticipate a possible rapid retreat in the future.