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Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2133-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2133-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
Research article
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23 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2025

Improved basal drag of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from L-curve analysis of inverse models utilizing subglacial hydrology simulations

Lea-Sophie Höyns, Thomas Kleiner, Andreas Rademacher, Martin Rückamp, Michael Wolovick, and Angelika Humbert

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The sliding of glaciers over bedrock is influenced by water pressure in the underlying hydrological system and the roughness of the land underneath the glacier. We estimate this roughness through a modeling approach that optimizes this unknown parameter. Additionally, we simulate water pressure, enhancing the reliability of the computed drag at the ice sheet base. The resulting data are provided to other modelers and scientists conducting geophysical field observations.
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