High sensitivity of tidewater outlet glacier dynamics to shape

EM Enderlin, IM Howat, A Vieli - The Cryosphere, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
Variability in tidewater outlet glacier behavior under similar external forcing has been
attributed to differences in outlet shape (ie, bed elevation and width), but this dependence …

Interannual changes of the floating ice shelf of Petermann Gletscher, North Greenland, from 2000 to 2012

A Münchow, L Padman, HA Fricker - Journal of Glaciology, 2014 - cambridge.org
Petermann Gletscher, northwest Greenland, drains 4% of the Greenland ice sheet into
Nares Strait. Its floating ice shelf retreated from 81 to 48 km in length during two large …

Extensive retreat of Greenland tidewater glaciers, 2000–2010

T Murray, K Scharrer, N Selmes, AD Booth… - Arctic, antarctic, and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Overall mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet nearly doubled during the early 2000s
resulting in an increased contribution to sea-level rise, with this step-change being mainly …

Characteristics and dynamics of two major Greenland glacial fjords

DA Sutherland, F Straneo… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The circulation regimes of two major outlet glacial fjords in southeastern Greenland, Sermilik
Fjord (SF) and Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord (KF), are investigated using data collected in summer …

Surface emergence of glacial plumes determined by fjord stratification

E De Andrés, DA Slater, F Straneo, J Otero… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Meltwater and sediment-laden plumes at tidewater glaciers, resulting from the localized
subglacial discharge of surface melt, influence submarine melting of the glacier and the …

Warm water pathways toward N ioghalvfjerdsfjorden G lacier, N ortheast G reenland

J Schaffer, WJ von Appen, PA Dodd… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier (79NG) is the largest of three marine‐terminating outlet
glaciers draining the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. To understand how Atlantic waters …

[HTML][HTML] Linkages between ocean circulation and the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream in the Early Holocene

J Davies, AM Mathiasen, K Kristiansen… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The melting of marine terminating glaciers in Northeast Greenland is a visible sign that our
climate is changing. This melt has been partly attributed to changes in oceanic heat fluxes …

Recent retreat of major outlet glaciers on Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic, influenced by fjord geometry and sea-ice conditions

JR Carr, C Stokes, A Vieli - Journal of Glaciology, 2014 - cambridge.org
Substantial ice loss has occurred in the Russian High Arctic during the past decade,
predominantly on Novaya Zemlya, yet the region has been studied relatively little …

A processing system to monitor Greenland outlet glacier velocity variations at decadal and seasonal time scales utilizing the Landsat imagery

R Rosenau, M Scheinert, R Dietrich - Remote sensing of environment, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a monitoring system for area-wide flow-velocity fields of the outlet
glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) utilizing the freely available Landsat archive. In …

Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene

AE Jennings, JT Andrews, CÓ Cofaigh… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Three radiocarbon dated sediment cores from trough mouth fans on the central west
Greenland continental slope were studied to determine the timing and processes of …