Estimating Spring Terminus Submarine Melt Rates at a Greenlandic Tidewater Glacier Using Satellite Imagery

Oceanic forcing of the Greenland Ice Sheet is believed to promote widespread thinning at tidewater glaciers, with submarine melting proposed as a potential trigger of increased glacier calving, retreat, and subsequent acceleration. The precise mechanism(s) driving glacier instability, however, remai...

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Main Authors: Alexis N. Moyer, Peter W. Nienow, Noel Gourmelen, Andrew J. Sole, Donald A. Slater
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2017.00107/full