Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets

GE Flowers - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent observations of dynamic water systems beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets have sparked renewed interest in modelling subglacial drainage. The foundations of …

The last glacial maximum at 44 S documented by a 10Be moraine chronology at Lake Ohau, Southern Alps of New Zealand

AE Putnam, JM Schaefer, GH Denton… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Determining whether glaciers registered the classic Last Glacial Maximum (LGM;∼ 26,500–
∼ 19,000 yrs ago) coevally between the hemispheres can help to discriminate among …

Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in two dimensions

MA Werder, IJ Hewitt, CG Schoof… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present a two‐dimensional Glacier Drainage System model (GlaDS) that couples
distributed and channelized subglacial water flow. Distributed flow occurs through linked …

Shallow shelf approximation as a “sliding law” in a thermomechanically coupled ice sheet model

E Bueler, J Brown - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The shallow shelf approximation, a balance of membrane stresses for ice flow, is an effective
“sliding law” for ice sheet modeling. Our use of it as a sliding law becomes a standard model …

An enthalpy formulation for glaciers and ice sheets

A Aschwanden, E Bueler, C Khroulev… - Journal of Glaciology, 2012 - cambridge.org
Polythermal conditions are ubiquitous among glaciers, from small valley glaciers to ice
sheets. Conventional temperature-based 'cold-ice'models of such ice masses cannot …

Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

RA Bindschadler, S Nowicki, A Abe-Ouchi… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Ten ice-sheet models are used to study sensitivity of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
to prescribed changes of surface mass balance, sub-ice-shelf melting and basal sliding …

Seasonal changes in ice sheet motion due to melt water lubrication

IJ Hewitt - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
A numerical model is used to calculate how the motion of an idealized ice-sheet margin is
affected by the subglacial drainage of melt water from its surface. The model describes the …

Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models

A Levermann, R Winkelmann, S Nowicki… - Earth System …, 2014 - esd.copernicus.org
The largest uncertainty in projections of future sea-level change results from the potentially
changing dynamical ice discharge from Antarctica. Basal ice-shelf melting induced by a …

A subglacial water-flow model for West Antarctica

AM Le Brocq, AJ Payne, MJ Siegert, RB Alley - Journal of Glaciology, 2009 - cambridge.org
The current generation of continental-scale ice-sheet models cannot successfully reproduce
the complex ice/water/sediment interactions of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) in a …

Feedbacks between coupled subglacial hydrology and glacier dynamics

M Hoffman, S Price - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
On most glaciers and ice sheet outlets the majority of motion is due to basal slip, a
combination of basal sliding and bed deformation. The importance of basal water in …