Sheet, stream, and shelf flow as progressive ice-bed uncoupling: Byrd Glacier, Antarctica and Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland
The first-order control of ice thickness and height above sea level is linked to the decreasing strength of ice-bed coupling along flowlines from an interior ice divide to the calving front of an ice shelf. Uncoupling progresses as a frozen bed progressively thaws for sheet flow, as a thawed bed is...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-01-01
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| Series: | The Cryosphere |
| Online Access: | http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/193/2016/tc-10-193-2016.pdf |