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The effect of submarine melting on calving from marine terminating glaciers
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2019
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(2), 334-346
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
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Description:Submarine melting and iceberg calving are two important processes that control mass loss from the terminus of tidewater glaciers. There have been significant efforts to quantify the effect of submarine melting on glacier calving, but controversy remains with conflicting studies indicating submarine melting can increase, decrease, or has minimal effect on calving. Here we show using a two-dimensional full Stokes finite element model that submarine melt can alter the state of stress near the terminus and the changes in stress exert a first-order control on the calving regime of marine terminating glaciers.
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(2), 334-346
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