Dynamics of Lake-Calving Glaciers: Yakutat Glacier, Alaska

提供的资金用于测试一系列假说，这些假说涉及冰川融化进入淡水湖的过程、冰解后退对冰川系统的动力学影响，以及表面融化和冰川融化造成的质量损失的相对贡献。冰川？整个冰川？将使用数据获取和监测的方法来实现这些目标。该项目的这些实地组成部分将得到制定湖泊冰川崩解规律的补充，该规律可纳入冰川流动的动力学模型。观测和模拟结果都将通过主要研究人员建立的国际合作，与世界各地其他冰川的数据进行比较。

Funds are provided to test a set of hypotheses that address the process of calving into a freshwater lake, the dynamical effect of a calving retreat on the glacier system, and the relative contributions of mass loss due to surface melting and calving. A ?whole glacier? approach of data acquisition and monitoring will be used to achieve these goals. These field components of the project will be complemented by the development of a lake glacier calving law that can be incorporated into dynamical models of glacier flow. Both observational and modeling results will be compared with data from other glaciers around the world through international collaborations established by the principal investigators.