Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation

J Mangerud, M Jakobsson, H Alexanderson… - Quaternary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
During the Quaternary period, ice sheets centred over the Barents and Kara seas expanded
several times onto mainland Russia and blocked northflowing rivers, such as the Yenissei …

The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Glaciers and glaciation

D Benn, DJA Evans - 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Less extreme and earlier outbursts of ice-dammed lakes since 1900

G Veh, N Lützow, J Tamm, LV Luna, R Hugonnet… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Episodic failures of ice-dammed lakes have produced some of the largest floods in history,
with disastrous consequences for communities in high mountains,,,,,–. Yet, estimating …

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 …

Paleohydraulics of the last outburst flood from glacial Lake Agassiz and the 8200BP cold event

GKC Clarke, DW Leverington, JT Teller… - Quaternary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
During the last deglaciation of North America, huge proglacial lakes formed along the
southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The largest of these was glacial Lake Agassiz …

Seasonal changes in ice sheet motion due to melt water lubrication

IJ Hewitt - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
A numerical model is used to calculate how the motion of an idealized ice-sheet margin is
affected by the subglacial drainage of melt water from its surface. The model describes the …

Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods

G Veh, N Lützow, V Kharlamova, D Petrakov… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Thousands of glacier lakes have been forming behind natural dams in high mountains
following glacier retreat since the early 20th century. Some of these lakes abruptly released …

Short‐term variability in Greenland Ice Sheet motion forced by time‐varying meltwater drainage: Implications for the relationship between subglacial drainage system …

I Bartholomew, P Nienow, A Sole, D Mair… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
High resolution measurements of ice motion along a∼ 120 km transect in a land‐
terminating section of the GrIS reveal short‐term velocity variations (< 1 day), which are …

Basal drainage system response to increasing surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet

T Meierbachtol, J Harper, N Humphrey - Science, 2013 - science.org
Surface meltwater reaching the bed of the Greenland ice sheet imparts a fundamental
control on basal motion. Sliding speed depends on ice/bed coupling, dictated by the …