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Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 62-712, Poland
Jakub Z. Kalita
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 62-712, Poland
Christiaan R. Diemont
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Stephen J. Livingstone
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Chris D. Clark
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Martin Margold
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Charles University, Prague 128 43, Czech Republic
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We provide a simple stress-based parameterization for cliff calving of ice sheets. According to the resulting increasing dependence of the calving rate on ice thickness, the parameterization might lead to a runaway ice loss in large parts of Greenland and Antarctica.
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The Cryosphere, 13, 1621–1633, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1621-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1621-2019, 2019
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The paper includes a model that can be used to predict zones of fracture formation in both floating and grounded ice in Antarctica. We used observations and a statistics-based model to predict fractures in most ice shelves in Antarctica as an alternative to the damage-based approach. We can predict the location of observed fractures with an average success rate of 84% for grounded ice and 61% for floating ice and mean overestimation error of 26% and 20%, respectively.
Sue Cook, Jan Åström, Thomas Zwinger, Benjamin Keith Galton-Fenzi, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum, and Richard Coleman
The Cryosphere, 12, 2401–2411, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2401-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2401-2018, 2018
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Short summary
A Baltic-wide glacial landform-based map is presented, filling in a geographical gap in the record that has been speculated about by palaeoglaciologists for over a century. Here we used newly available bathymetric data and provide landform evidence of corridors of fast ice flow that we interpret as ice streams. Where previous ice-sheet-scale investigations inferred a single ice source, our mapping identifies flow and ice margin geometries from both Swedish and Bothnian sources.
A Baltic-wide glacial landform-based map is presented, filling in a geographical gap in the...
