Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-485-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-485-2021
Research article
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02 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 02 Feb 2021

Thinning leads to calving-style changes at Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland

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

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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.