A note on the snout

The shallow ice approximation for glaciers and ice sheets is a degenerate model in which the ice surface slope at the margin may be infinite. This result is due to the neglect of the otherwise small longitudinal stress terms. Here we derive a corrected approximation for the basal shear stress, and s...

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Main Author: A.C. Fowler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-02-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143022000363/type/journal_article