Polythermal glacier hydrology: a review

TDL Irvine‐Fynn, AJ Hodson, BJ Moorman… - Reviews of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The manner by which meltwater drains through a glacier is critical to ice dynamics, runoff
characteristics, and water quality. However, much of the contemporary knowledge relating to …

The empirical basis for modelling glacial erosion rates

SJ Cook, DA Swift, MP Kirkbride, PG Knight… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glaciers are highly effective agents of erosion that have profoundly shaped Earth's surface,
but there is uncertainty about how glacial erosion should be parameterised in landscape …

High resolution mapping of supra‐glacial drainage pathways reveals link between micro‐channel drainage density, surface roughness and surface reflectance

DM Rippin, A Pomfret, N King - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports on the use of a small unmanned aerial vehicle (sUAV) carrying a
standard compact camera, to construct a high resolution orthomosaic (OM) and digital …

Cirque glaciers as morphological evidence for a thin Younger Dryas ice sheet in east‐central southern Norway

SO Dahl, A Nesje, J Øvstedal - Boreas, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Three localities with marginal moraines deposited by former cirque glaciers are investigated
in east‐central southern Norway. The wet‐based (erosive) cirque glaciers with aspects …

Glacier debris accumulation and sediment deformation influenced by permafrost: examples from Svalbard

B Etzelmüller, JO Hagen, G Vatne, RS Ødegård… - Annals of …, 1996 - cambridge.org
The formation of ice-cored moraines and push moraines is discussed in the light of glacier
thermal regime and glacier dynamics. Data from two Svalbard valley glaciers, Erikbreen and …

Hydrology and dynamics of a polythermal (mostly cold) High Arctic glacier

RG Bingham, PW Nienow, MJ Sharp… - … and Landforms: The …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our understanding of the interactions between hydrology and dynamics in mostly
cold glaciers (in which water flow is limited by thermal regime), we analyse short‐term (every …

Character and rate of denudation in a High Arctic glacierized catchment (Ebbaelva, Central Spitsbergen)

J Szpikowski, G Szpikowska, Z Zwoliński… - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
A series of investigations of water and sediment discharge from the glacierized Ebba River
catchment (53 km 2, located in the Billefjorden area in the central part of Spitsbergen) was …

Mass balance and changes of surface slope, crevasse and flow pattern of Erikbreen, northern Spitsbergen: an application of a geographical information system (GIS)

B Etzelmüller, G Vatne, RS Ødegârd, JL Sollid - Polar Research, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
The polythcrmal valley glacier Erikbreen (79° 40'N 12° 30'E), northern Spitsbergen, was
investigated in 1970 and 1990 using digital photogrammetry and digital elevation model …

Temporal variations in flow velocity at Finsterwalderbreen, a Svalbard surge-type glacier

AM Nuttall, R Hodgkins - Annals of Glaciology, 2005 - cambridge.org
Inter-and intra-annual velocity variations are well known on alpine glaciers, but their
importance for Arctic glaciers has only been recognized more recently. This paper presents …

Glacier geomorphometry—an approach for analyzing long-term glacier surface changes using grid-based digital elevation models

B Etzelmüller, JL Sollid - Annals of Glaciology, 1997 - cambridge.org
This paper presents an approach to long-term glacier monitoring. Mathematical surface
descriptors, such as altitude, slope and curvature (surface form) are used to classify and …