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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-721-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-721-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Research article
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28 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 28 Feb 2018

Calving relation for tidewater glaciers based on detailed stress field analysis

Rémy Mercenier, Martin P. Lüthi, and Andreas Vieli

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This study investigates the effect of geometrical properties on the stress state and flow regime in the vicinity of the calving front of grounded tidewater glaciers. Our analysis shows that the stress state for simple geometries can be determined solely by the water depth relative to ice thickness. This scaled relationship allows for a simple parametrization to predict calving rates of grounded tidewater glaciers that is simple, physics-based and in good agreement with observations.
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