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Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates
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dc.contributor.author | Slater, D. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nienow, P. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cowton, T. R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Goldberg, D. N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sole, A. J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-18T12:30:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-18T12:30:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-05-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Slater , D A , Nienow , P W , Cowton , T R , Goldberg , D N & Sole , A J 2015 , ' Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates ' , Geophysical Research Letters , vol. 42 , no. 8 , pp. 2861-2868 . https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062494 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-8276 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 245779514 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 852d6f90-2411-4161-9d55-d9f7e3c26d3b | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:C938608B7B38D614A0A5296FFF9D0EDA | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84929508941 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-1668-7372/work/60427792 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000354560800038 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8394-6149/work/70619157 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/11684 | |
dc.description | D. A. S is supported by a NERC PhD studentship. T. R. C is supported by NERC grant NE/K014609/1 awarded to P. W. N and A. J. S. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Submarine melting of Greenlandic tidewater glacier termini is proposed as a possible mechanism driving their recent thinning and retreat. We use a general circulation model, MITgcm, to simulate water circulation driven by subglacial discharge at the terminus of an idealized tidewater glacier. We vary the spatial distribution of subglacial discharge emerging at the grounding line of the glacier and examine the effect on submarine melt volume and distribution. We find that subglacial hydrology exerts an important control on submarine melting; under certain conditions a distributed system can induce a factor 5 more melt than a channelized system, with plumes from a single channel inducing melt over only a localized area. Subglacial hydrology also controls the spatial distribution of melt, which has the potential to control terminus morphology and calving style. Our results highlight the need to constrain near-terminus subglacial hydrology at tidewater glaciers if we are to represent ocean forcing accurately. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Geophysical Research Letters | en |
dc.rights | ©2015. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Greenland ice sheet | en |
dc.subject | Ice-ocean interactions | en |
dc.subject | Modeling | en |
dc.subject | Subglacial hydrology | en |
dc.subject | Submarine melting | en |
dc.subject | Tidewater glaciers | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062494 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014GL062494#support-information-section | en |
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