Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-971-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-971-2018
Research article
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22 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 22 Mar 2018

Modelling seasonal meltwater forcing of the velocity of land-terminating margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Conrad P. Koziol and Neil Arnold

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Short summary
We model the summer acceleration of ice velocities at a land-terminating margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Model results compare favourably against GPS data, reflecting positively on the model components and the datasets used. When we run the model into the future, we find that summer velocities increase with increasing levels of surface melt but that changes in annual velocities may be limited.