Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

M Huss, B Bookhagen, C Huggel, D Jacobsen… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cryosphere in mountain regions is rapidly declining, a trend that is expected to
accelerate over the next several decades due to anthropogenic climate change. A cascade …

The impact of glaciers on mountain erosion

F Herman, F De Doncker, I Delaney… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Glaciers and ice sheets erode mountains and produce vast quantities of sediments that are
delivered to rivers and oceans, impacting global sediment and biogeochemical balances …

Glacial erosion: status and outlook

RB Alley, KM Cuffey, LK Zoet - Annals of Glaciology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Glacier-erosion rates range across orders of magnitude, and much of this variation cannot
be attributed to basal sliding rates. Subglacial till acts as lubricating 'fault gouge'or 'sawdust' …

Linkages of the dynamics of glaciers and lakes with the climate elements over the Tibetan Plateau

J Sun, T Zhou, M Liu, Y Chen, H Shang, L Zhu… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Future climate warming is expected to have a significant effect on the operation of Earth and
Ecological systems. A key concern in the future is water resource availability. In regions such …

The empirical basis for modelling glacial erosion rates

SJ Cook, DA Swift, MP Kirkbride, PG Knight… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glaciers are highly effective agents of erosion that have profoundly shaped Earth's surface,
but there is uncertainty about how glacial erosion should be parameterised in landscape …

Forming terrains by glacial erosion

G Cordonnier, G Jouvet, A Peytavie, J Braun… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the first solution for simulating the formation and evolution of glaciers, together
with their attendant erosive effects, for periods covering the combination of glacial and inter …

[HTML][HTML] Runoff and sediment yield in relation to precipitation, temperature and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau

F Zhang, C Zeng, G Wang, L Wang, X Shi - International Soil and Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
The riverine sediment is an essential carrier for nutrients and pollutants delivery and is
considered as an important indicator of land degradation and environmental changes. With …

Reconstructing climate from glaciers

AN Mackintosh, BM Anderson… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Glaciers offer the potential to reconstruct past climate over timescales from decades to
millennia. They are found on nearly every continent, and at the Last Glacial Maximum …

Increased subglacial sediment discharge in a warming climate: Consideration of ice dynamics, glacial erosion, and fluvial sediment transport

I Delaney, S Adhikari - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate changes to subglacial sediment discharge during glacier retreat by considering
ice dynamics, bedrock erosion, and sediment transport processes. Coupling these …