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 …

An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system

J Fyke, O Sergienko, M Löfverström… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ice sheet response to forced changes—such as that from anthropogenic climate forcing—is
closely regulated by two‐way interactions with other components of the Earth system. These …

Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

LC Andrews, GA Catania, MJ Hoffman, JD Gulley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seasonal acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet is influenced by the dynamic response of
the subglacial hydrologic system to variability in meltwater delivery to the bed, via crevasses …

Decadal slowdown of a land-terminating sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet despite warming

AJ Tedstone, PW Nienow, N Gourmelen, A Dehecq… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Ice flow along land-terminating margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) varies
considerably in response to fluctuating inputs of surface meltwater to the bed of the ice …

Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly connected regions of the bed

MJ Hoffman, LC Andrews, SF Price, GA Catania… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Penetration of surface meltwater to the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet each summer causes
an initial increase in ice speed due to elevated basal water pressure, followed by slowdown …

Seasonal acceleration of Petermann Glacier, Greenland, from changes in subglacial hydrology

S Ehrenfeucht, M Morlighem, E Rignot… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Petermann Glacier is a major outlet glacier of northern Greenland that drains a marine‐
based basin vulnerable to destabilization from enhanced oceanic and atmospheric forcings …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent, extensive channelized drainage modeled beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

AO Hager, MJ Hoffman, SF Price… - The Cryosphere, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Subglacial hydrology is a leading control on basal friction and the dynamics of glaciers and
ice sheets. At low discharge, subglacial water flows through high-pressure, sheet-like …

Description and evaluation of the community ice sheet model (CISM) v2. 1

WH Lipscomb, SF Price, MJ Hoffman… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
We describe and evaluate version 2.1 of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM). CISM is a
parallel, 3-D thermomechanical model, written mainly in Fortran, that solves equations for …

Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon

C Rada, C Schoof - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
The subglacial drainage system is one of the main controls on basal sliding, but remains
only partially understood. Here we use an 8-year dataset of borehole observations on a …

The influence of hydrology on the dynamics of land-terminating sectors of the Greenland ice sheet

BJ Davison, AJ Sole, SJ Livingstone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coupling between runoff, hydrology, basal motion, and mass loss (“hydrology-dynamics”) is
a critical component of the Greenland Ice Sheet system. Despite considerable research …