Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier
<p>By the end of 2018 Kangerlussuaq Glacier in southeast Greenland had retreated further inland than at any time in the past 80 years and its terminus was approaching a region of retrograde bed slope from where further rapid retreat would have been inevitable. Here we show that the retreat occ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2019-09-01
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| Series: | The Cryosphere |
| Online Access: | https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/2303/2019/tc-13-2303-2019.pdf |