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The influence of firn layer material properties on surface crevasse propagation in glaciers and ice shelves
Theo Clayton
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Ravindra Duddu
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Tim Hageman
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK
Emilio Martínez-Pañeda
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Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Tim Hageman, Jessica Mejía, Ravindra Duddu, and Emilio Martínez-Pañeda
The Cryosphere, 18, 3991–4009, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3991-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3991-2024, 2024
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Due to surface melting, meltwater lakes seasonally form on the surface of glaciers. These lakes drive hydrofractures that rapidly transfer water to the base of ice sheets. This paper presents a computational method to capture the complicated hydrofracturing process. Our work reveals that viscous ice rheology has a great influence on the short-term propagation of fractures, enabling fast lake drainage, whereas thermal effects (frictional heating, conduction, and freezing) have little influence.
Meghana Ranganathan, Alexander A. Robel, Alexander Huth, and Ravindra Duddu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1850, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1850, 2024
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The rate of ice loss from ice sheets is controlled by the flow of ice from the center of the ice sheet and internal fracturing of the ice. These are coupled – fractures can reduce the viscosity of ice and enable more rapid flow, and rapid flow can cause fracturing of ice. We present a simplified way of representing damage that is applicable to long-timescale flow estimates. Using this model, we find that including fracturing into an ice sheet simulation can increase the loss of ice by 13–29 %.
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The Cryosphere, 18, 5207–5238, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5207-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5207-2024, 2024
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We develop and validate new analytical solutions that quantitatively consider how the properties of ice vary along the depth of ice shelves and that can be readily used in existing ice sheet models. Depth-varying firn properties are found to have a profound impact on ice sheet fracture and calving events. Our results show that grounded glaciers are less vulnerable than previously anticipated, while floating ice shelves are significantly more vulnerable to fracture and calving.
We develop and validate new analytical solutions that quantitatively consider how the properties...