Role of discrete water recharge from supraglacial drainage systems  in modeling patterns of subglacial conduits in Svalbard glaciers

Decaux, Léo; Grabiec, Mariusz; Ignatiuk, Dariusz; Jania, Jacek

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-735-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-735-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-735-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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04 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2019

Role of discrete water recharge from supraglacial drainage systems in modeling patterns of subglacial conduits in Svalbard glaciers

Léo Decaux, Mariusz Grabiec, Dariusz Ignatiuk, and Jacek Jania

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Mar 2018
RC3: 'Review of ``Role of discrete recharge from the supraglacial drainage system for modelling of subglacial conduits pattern of Svalbard polythermal glaciers''', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Mar 2018
RC4: 'Reviewer 2 comments', Doug Benn, 14 Mar 2018
AC1: 'Answer to all referees', Léo Decaux, 15 May 2018
EC1: 'Editor comment', Olaf Eisen, 16 May 2018

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Oct 2018) by Olaf Eisen

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (15 Oct 2018)

AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2018) Author's response

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Nov 2018) by Olaf Eisen

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Jan 2019) by Olaf Eisen

RR by Douglas Benn (30 Jan 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (30 Jan 2019) by Olaf Eisen

Short summary

Due to the fast melting of glaciers around the world, it is important to characterize the evolution of the meltwater circulation beneath them as it highly impacts their velocity. By using very high-resolution satellite images and field measurements, we modelized it for two Svalbard glaciers. We determined that for most of Svalbard glaciers it is crucial to include their surface morphology to obtain a reliable model, which is not currently done. Having good models is key to predicting our future.