The cryosphere is an important component of the global climate system. Cryospheric
components are sensitive to climate warming, and changes in the cryosphere can lead to …

The detachment of large parts of low-angle mountain glaciers resulting in massive ice–rock
avalanches have so far been believed to be a unique type of event, made known to the …

Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early
2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance …

Abstract Knowledge about the occurrence and characteristics of surge-type glaciers is
crucial due to the impact of surging on glacier melt and glacier-related hazards. One of the …

The slip of glaciers over the underlying bed is the dominant mechanism governing the
migration of ice from land into the oceans, with accelerating slip contributing to sea-level …

Ice-sheet responses to climate warming and associated sea-level rise depend sensitively on
the form of the slip law that relates drag at the beds of glaciers to their slip velocity and basal …

Accurate measurements of ice flow are essential to predict future changes in glaciers and
ice caps. Glacier displacement can in principle be measured on the large scale by cross …

Glacier surging is an unusual instability of ice flow, and inventories of surging glaciers are
important for regional glacier mass balance studies and glacier dynamic studies. Glacier …

Although many convincing, diverse, and sometimes competing models of glacier surging
have been proposed, the observed behavior of surging glaciers does not fit into distinct …

Below hard‐bedded glaciers, both basal friction and distributed subglacial drainage are
thought to be controlled by a network of cavities. Previous coupled hydro‐mechanical …