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MARC recordModel studies on ice-stream surging / Uwe Radok, B.J. McInnes, Dick Jenssen, William F. Budd.
| Title: | Model studies on ice-stream surging / Uwe Radok, B.J. McInnes, Dick Jenssen, William F. Budd. |
| Author(s): | Radok, Uwe. McInnes, B. J. Jenssen, Dick. Budd, William F. |
| Date: | 1989. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge: International Glaciological Society |
| In: | Annals of Glaciology. (1989.), Vol. 12 (1989) |
| Abstract: | Self-surging glacier model, in which basal sliding is parameterized in terms of energy per unit area dissipated by basal friction, is extended to model steady-state and time-dependent behaviour of eight Antarctic ice streams. Basic characteristics were established with working hypothesis of steady-state mass balance for whole ice sheet, using 20 km grid digitization of surface and bedrock-elevation contours in Antarctic folio (Drewry 1983). When viscosity of ice is lowered to values that are somewhat unrealistic for present Antarctic ice, all model ice streams enter pulsating fast-sliding mode of flow in which velocity reaches several km a⁻¹ for periods ranging from fractions of year to tens of years. Except for one ice stream (Slessor Glacier), no substantial surge-like advances were found, and no periodic surging regime developed even in that one case. Pulses are tentatively attributed to processes at grounding line, with converging width-parameterization scheme in surging velocity calculation as another complexity that is still being investigated. Concludes that special regime and topography of ice streams impede onset of periodic surging. |
| Notes: | Annals of Glaciology. Vol. 12 :132-137 (1989). |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.65 -- Land ice, surges and catastrophic changes. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
| SPRI record no.: | 96610 |
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