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Research article
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21 Feb 2018
Research article |
| 21 Feb 2018
| 21 Feb 2018
Effects of undercutting and sliding on calving: a global approach applied to Kronebreen, Svalbard
Dorothée Vallot
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Jan Åström
CSC – IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland
Thomas Zwinger
CSC – IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland
Rickard Pettersson
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Alistair Everett
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Douglas I. Benn
School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Adrian Luckman
Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Department of Arctic Geophysics, UNIS, The University Center in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
Ward J. J. van Pelt
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Faezeh Nick
Arctic Geology Department, University Centre in Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway
Jack Kohler
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
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Black carbon (BC) aerosols are soot-like particles which, when transported to the Arctic, darken snow surfaces, thus indirectly affecting climate. Information on BC in Arctic snow is needed to measure their impact and monitor the efficacy of pollution-reduction policies. This paper presents a large new set of BC measurements in snow in Svalbard collected between 2007 and 2018. It describes how BC in snow varies across the archipelago and explores some factors controlling these variations.
Rupert Gladstone, Benjamin Galton-Fenzi, David Gwyther, Qin Zhou, Tore Hattermann, Chen Zhao, Lenneke Jong, Yuwei Xia, Xiaoran Guo, Konstantinos Petrakopoulos, Thomas Zwinger, Daniel Shapero, and John Moore
Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 889–905, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-889-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-889-2021, 2021
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Retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet, and hence its contribution to sea level rise, is highly sensitive to melting of its floating ice shelves. This melt is caused by warm ocean currents coming into contact with the ice. Computer models used for future ice sheet projections are not able to realistically evolve these melt rates. We describe a new coupling framework to enable ice sheet and ocean computer models to interact, allowing projection of the evolution of melt and its impact on sea level.
Eef C. H. van Dongen, Guillaume Jouvet, Shin Sugiyama, Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Martin Funk, Douglas I. Benn, Fabian Lindner, Andreas Bauder, Julien Seguinot, Silvan Leinss, and Fabian Walter
The Cryosphere, 15, 485–500, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-485-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-485-2021, 2021
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The dynamic mass loss of tidewater glaciers is strongly linked to glacier calving. We study calving mechanisms under a thinning regime, based on 5 years of field and remote-sensing data of Bowdoin Glacier. Our data suggest that Bowdoin Glacier ungrounded recently, and its calving behaviour changed from calving due to surface crevasses to buoyancy-induced calving resulting from basal crevasses. This change may be a precursor to glacier retreat.
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This paper presents a new perspective on the role of ice dynamics and ocean interaction in glacier calving processes applied to Kronebreen, a tidewater glacier in Svalbard. A global modelling approach includes ice flow modelling, undercutting estimation by a combination of glacier energy balance and plume modelling as well as calving by a discrete particle model. We show that modelling undercutting is necessary and calving is influenced by basal friction velocity and geometry.
This paper presents a new perspective on the role of ice dynamics and ocean interaction in...
