Buoyant flexure and basal crevassing in dynamic mass loss at Helheim Glacier
Buoyant flexure and basal crevassing in dynamic mass loss at Helheim Glacier
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赫尔海姆冰川动态质量损失中的浮力弯曲和基底裂隙
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10.1038/ngeo2204
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2014
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18.3
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James T
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James T
Iceberg calving accounts for a significant proportion of annual mass loss from marine-terminating glaciers,and may have been a factor in the rapid demise of ancient ice sheets. The largest contributions from the main outlet glaciers of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise over the next two centuries have been projected to be dynamic in origin, that is, driven by glacier flow and calving. However, present physical models remain a coarse approximation of real calving mechanisms because models are poorly constrained by sparse glacier geometry observations. Here we present a record of daily digital elevation models from the calving margin of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier at a high spatial resolution. Our digital elevation models are derived from stereo terrestrial photography taken over the summers of 2010 and 2011. We find that during these two summers dynamic mass loss at Helheim Glacier was dominated by calving events exceeding 1 km3that were the result of buoyant flexure and the propagation of basal crevasses. We suggest that this buoyancy-driven mechanism for calving may be common elsewhere in Greenland and could be a first-order control on the ice sheet’s future contribution to sea-level rise.
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DOI:
10.5194/tcd-6-1637-2012
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2012
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Bevan S
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1995
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作者:
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作者:
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影响因子:
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Dahl-Jensen, D.
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2009
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T. Murray;K. Scharrer;T. James;S. Dye;Edward Hanna;A. Booth;N. Selmes;A. Luckman;A. Hughes;S. Cook;P. Huybrechts
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