Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Recent progress in Greenland ice sheet modelling

H Goelzer, A Robinson, H Seroussi… - Current climate change …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This paper reviews the recent literature on numerical modelling
of the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet with the goal of providing an overview of …

Holocene ice-stream shutdown and drainage basin reconfiguration in northeast Greenland

S Franke, PD Bons, J Westhoff, I Weikusat, T Binder… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reliable knowledge of ice discharge dynamics for the Greenland ice sheet via its ice
streams is essential if we are to understand its stability under future climate scenarios …

Shear margins in upper half of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream were established two millennia ago

D Jansen, S Franke, CC Bauer, T Binder… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Only a few localised ice streams drain most of the ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thus,
understanding ice stream behaviour and its temporal variability is crucially important to …

Greenland Ice Sheet: Higher nonlinearity of ice flow significantly reduces estimated basal motion

PD Bons, T Kleiner, MG Llorens… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In times of warming in polar regions, the prediction of ice sheet discharge is of utmost
importance to society, because of its impact on sea level rise. In simulations the flow rate of …

Formation mechanisms of large‐scale folding in Greenland's ice sheet

Y Zhang, T Sachau, S Franke, H Yang… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Radio‐echo sounding (RES) shows large‐scale englacial stratigraphic folds are ubiquitous
in Greenland's ice sheet. However, there is no consensus yet on how these folds form. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Upstream flow effects revealed in the EastGRIP ice core using Monte Carlo inversion of a two-dimensional ice-flow model

TA Gerber, CS Hvidberg, SO Rasmussen… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) is the largest active ice stream on the
Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and a crucial contributor to the ice-sheet mass balance. To …

Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing

R Law, P Christoffersen, B Hubbard, SH Doyle… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Measurements of ice temperature provide crucial constraints on ice viscosity and the
thermodynamic processes occurring within a glacier. However, such measurements are …

Ice fabric in an Antarctic ice stream interpreted from seismic anisotropy

EC Smith, AF Baird, JM Kendall… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present new measurements of an anisotropic ice fabric in a fast moving (377 ma−
1) ice stream in West Antarctica. We use∼ 6000 measurements of shear wave splitting …