Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Fjords as aquatic critical zones (ACZs)

TS Bianchi, S Arndt, WEN Austin, DI Benn… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

Rapid large-area map** of ice flow using Landsat 8

M Fahnestock, T Scambos, T Moon, A Gardner… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report on the maturation of optical satellite-image-based ice velocity map** over the
ice sheets and large glacierized areas, enabled by the high radiometric resolution and …

Ice-sheet acceleration driven by melt supply variability

C Schoof - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Increased ice velocities in Greenland are contributing significantly to eustatic sea level rise.
Faster ice flow has been associated with ice–ocean interactions in water-terminating outlet …

Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

LC Andrews, GA Catania, MJ Hoffman, JD Gulley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seasonal acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet is influenced by the dynamic response of
the subglacial hydrologic system to variability in meltwater delivery to the bed, via crevasses …

Distinct patterns of seasonal Greenland glacier velocity

T Moon, I Joughin, B Smith… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Predicting Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss due to ice dynamics requires a complete
understanding of spatiotemporal velocity fluctuations and related control mechanisms. We …

Glacier crevasses: Observations, models, and mass balance implications

W Colgan, H Rajaram, W Abdalati… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We review the findings of approximately 60 years of in situ and remote sensing studies of
glacier crevasses, as well as the three broad classes of numerical models now employed to …

[HTML][HTML] Ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Identification, characteristics and comparison to modern ice sheets

M Margold, CR Stokes, CD Clark - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review and synthesis of ice streams in the Laurentide
Ice Sheet (LIS) based on a new map** inventory that includes previously hypothesised ice …

Greenland meltwater as a significant and potentially bioavailable source of iron to the ocean

MP Bhatia, EB Kujawinski, SB Das, CF Breier… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The micronutrient iron is thought to limit primary productivity in large regions of the global
ocean. Ice sheets and glaciers have been shown to deliver bioavailable iron to the coastal …

Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets

GE Flowers - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent observations of dynamic water systems beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets have sparked renewed interest in modelling subglacial drainage. The foundations of …