Structures and deformation in glaciers and ice sheets

SJA Jennings, MJ Hambrey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this review are to:(a) describe and interpret structures in valley glaciers in
relation to strain history; and (b) to explore how these structures inform our understanding of …

Foehn event triggered by an atmospheric river underlies record‐setting temperature along continental Antarctica

D Bozkurt, R Rondanelli, JC Marín… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A record‐setting temperature of 17.5° C occurred on 24 March 2015 at the Esperanza
station located near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). We studied the event …

Seismic Noise Interferometry and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS): Inverting for the Firn Layer S‐Velocity Structure on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica

W Zhou, A Butcher, AM Brisbourne… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Firn densification profiles are an important parameter for ice‐sheet mass balance and
palaeoclimate studies. One conventional method of investigating firn profiles is using …

Atmospheric drivers of melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf: Surface energy budget regimes and the impact of foehn

AD Elvidge, P Kuipers Munneke… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent ice shelf retreat on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula has been principally
attributed to atmospherically driven melt. However, previous studies on the largest of these …

The impact of föhn winds on surface energy balance during the 2010–2011 melt season over Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

JC King, A Kirchgaessner, S Bevan… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We use model data from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS), measurements
from automatic weather stations and satellite observations to investigate the association …

[HTML][HTML] An exploratory modelling study of perennial firn aquifers in the Antarctic Peninsula for the period 1979–2016

JM van Wessem, CR Steger, N Wever… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
In this study, we focus on the model detection in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) of so-called
perennial firn aquifers (PFAs) that are widespread in Greenland and Svalbard and are …

Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf

SL Bevan, A Luckman, B Hubbard, B Kulessa… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Following a southward progression of ice-shelf disintegration along the Antarctic Peninsula
(AP), Larsen C Ice Shelf (LCIS) has become the focus of ongoing investigation regarding its …

Evaluating the retreat, arrest, and regrowth of Crane Glacier against marine ice cliff process models

C Needell, N Holschuh - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fastest projected rates of sea level rise appear in models which include “the marine ice
cliff instability (MICI),” a hypothesized but mostly unobserved process defined by rapid …

Internal structure of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier revealed by borehole optical televiewing

KE Miles, B Hubbard, ES Miles, DJ Quincey… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Characterising the structures within glaciers can give unique insight into ice motion
processes. On debris-covered glaciers, traditional structural glaciological mapping is …

Observationally constrained surface mass balance of Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica

P Kuipers Munneke, D McGrath, B Medley… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
The surface mass balance (SMB) of the Larsen C ice shelf (LCIS), Antarctica, is poorly
constrained due to a dearth of in situ observations. Combining several geophysical …