Distribution of basal melting and freezing beneath tributaries of Ice Stream C: Implication for the Holocene decay of the West Antarctic ice sheet

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2003, Pages 273-282

  Vogel, Stefan W ^a   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^a   Joughin, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL MELTING; FREEZING; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENE; ICE STREAM;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET;

EID: 0041853525     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756403781816112     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Alley, R. B., D. D. Blankenship, C. R. Bentley and S. T. Rooney. 1987a. Till beneath Ice Stream B. 3. Till deformation: evidence and implications. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B9), 8921-8929.
2. Alley, R. B., D. D. Blankenship, S. T. Rooney and C. R. Bentley. 1987b. Till beneath Ice Stream B. 4. A coupled ice-till flow model. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B9), 8931-8940.
3. Alley, R. B., D. D. Blankenship, S. T. Rooney and C. R. Bentley. 1989. Water-pressure coupling of sliding and bed deformation: III. Application to Ice Stream B, Antarctica. J. Glaciol., 35(119), 130-139.
4. Anandakrishnan, S. and R. B. Alley. 1997. Stagnation of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica by water piracy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24(3), 265-268.
5. Anandakrishnan, S., D. D. Blankenship, R. B. Alley and P. L. Stoffa, 1998. Influence of subglacial geology on the position of a West Antarctic ice stream from seismic observations. Nature, 394(6688), 62-65.
6. Bamber, J. L., D. G. Vaughan and I. Joughin. 2000. Widespread complex flow in the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet. Science, 287(5456), 1248-1250.
7. Bell, R. E. and 6 others. 1998. Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations. Nature, 394(6688), 58-62.
8. Blankenship, D. D., C. R. Bentley, S. T. Rooney and R. B. Alley. 1987. Till beneath Ice Stream B. 1. Properties derived from seismic travel times. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B9), 8903-8911.
9. Budd, W. F., D. Jenssen and I. N. Smith. 1984. A three-dimensional time-dependent model of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Ann. Glaciol., 5, 29-36.
10. Budd, W. F., B. Coutts and R. C. Warner. 1998. Modelling the Antarctic and Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet changes with global climate through the glacial cycle. Ann. Glaciol., 27, 153-160.
11. Christoffersen, P. and S. Tulaczyk. 2003. Thermodynamics of basal freeze-on: predicting basal and subglacial signatures of stopped ice streams and interstream ridges. Ann. Glaciol., 36 (see paper in this volume).
12. Conway, H., B. L. Hall, G. H. Denton, A. M. Gades and E. D. Waddington. 1999. Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Science, 286(5438), 280-283.
13. Echelmeyer, K. A., W. D. Harrison, C. Larsen and J. E. Mitchell. 1994. The role of the margins in the dynamics of an active ice stream. J. Glaciol., 40(136), 527-538.
14. Engelhardt, H. and B. Kamb. 1997. Basal hydraulic system of a West Antarctic ice stream: constraints from borehole observations. J. Glaciol., 43(144), 207-230.
15. Engelhardt, H. and B. Kamb. 1998. Basal sliding of Ice Stream B, West Antarctica. J. Glaciol., 44(147), 223-230.
16. Engelhardt, H., N. Humphrey, B. Kamb and M. Fahnestock. 1990. Physical conditions at the base of a fast moving Antarctic ice stream. Science, 248(4951), 57-59.
17. Fastook, J. L. and M. Prentice. 1994. A finite-element model of Antarctica: sensitivity test for meteorological mass-balance relationship. J. Glaciol., 40(134), 167-175.
18. Giovinetto, M. B. and H. J. Zwally. 2000. Spatial distribution of net surface accumulation on the Antarctic ice sheet. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 171-178.
19. Giovinetto, M. B., N. M. Waters, and C. R. Bentley. 1990. Dependence of Antarctic surface mass balance on temperature, elevation, and distance to open ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 95(D4), 3517 3531.
20. Harrison, W. D., K. A. Echelmeyer and H. Engelhardt. 1993. Short-period observations of speed, strain and seismicity on Ice Stream B, Antarctica. J. Glaciol., 39(133), 463-470.
21. Harrison, W. D., K. A. Echelmeyer and C. F. Larsen. 1998. Measurement of temperature in a margin of Ice Stream B, Antarctica: implications for margin migration and lateral drag. J. Glaciol, 44(148), 615-624.
22. Hooke, R. LeB. 1998. Principles of glacier mechanics. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall.
23. Hulbe, C. L. and D. R. MacAyeal. 1999. A new numerical model of coupled inland ice sheet, ice stream, and ice shelf flow and its application to the West Antarctic ice sheet. J. Geophys. Res., 104(B11), 25,349-25,366.
24. Hulbe, C. L., I. R. Joughin, D. L. Morse and R. A. Bindschadler. 2000. Tributaries to West Antarctic ice streams: characteristics deduced from numerical modelling of ice flow. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 184 190.
25. Jenssen, D. 1983. Elevation and climatic change from total gas content and stable isotopic measurements. In Robin, G. de Q., ed. The climatic record in polar ice sheets. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 138 144.
26. Joughin, I. and 7 others. 1999. Tributaries of West Antarctic ice streams revealed by RADARSAT interferometry. Science, 286(5438), 283 286.
27. Joughin, I., S. Tulaczyk, R. A. Bindschadler and S. Price. 2002. Changes in West-Antarctic ice stream velocities: observation and analysis. J. Geophys. Res, 107(B11), 2289. (10.1029/2001JB001029.)
28. Kamb, B. 2001. Basal zone of the West Antarctic ice streams and its role in lubrication of their rapid motion. In Alley, R. B. and R. A. Bindschadler, eds. The West Antarctic ice sheet: behavior and environment. Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union, 157 199. (Antarctic Research Series 77.)
29. Lythe, M. B., D. G. Vaughan and BEDMAP Consortium. 2001, BEDMAP: a new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica. J. Geophys. Res., 106(B6), 11,335 11,351.
30. MacAyeal, D. R. 1993. A tutorial on the use of control methods in ice-sheet modeling. J. Glaciol., 39(131), 91 98.
31. 2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster. Nature, 271(5643), 321 325.
32. Parizek, B. R., R. B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan and H. Conway 2002. Sub-catchment melt and long-term stability of Ice Stream D, West Antarctica. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(8), 551 554.
33. Paterson, W. S. B. 1994 The physics of glaciers. Third edition. Oxford, etc., Elsevier.
34. Payne, A. J. 1998. Dynamics of the Siple Coast ice streams, West Antarctica: results from a thermomechanical ice sheet model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25(16), 3173 3176.
35. Payne, A. J. 1999. A thermomechanical model of ice flow in West Antarctica. Climate Dyn., 15(2), 115 125.
36. Petit, J.-R. and 18 others. 1999. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature, 399(6735), 429-436.
37. Raymond, C. F. 2000. Energy balance of ice streams. J. Glaciol., 46(155), 665-674.
38. Robin, G. de Q., ed., 1983. The climatic record in polar ice sheets. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press.
39. Scherer, R. P., A. Aldahan, S. Tulaczyk, G. Possnert, H. Engelhardt and B. Kamb. 1998. Pleistocene collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Science, 281(5373), 82-85.
40. Shabtaie, S. and C. R. Bentley. 1987. West Antarctic ice streams draining into the Ross Ice Shelf: configuration and mass balance. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B2), 1311 1336. (Erratum: 92(B9), 1987, p.9451.)
41. Steig, E. J. and 6 others. 2001. West Antarctic ice sheet elevation changes. In Alley, R. B. and R. A. Bindschadler, eds. The West Antarctic ice sheet: behavior and environment. Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union, 75-90. (Antarctic Research Series 77.)
42. Tulaczyk, S., B. Kamb, R. P. Scherer and H. F. Engelhardt. 1998. Sedimentary processes at the base of the West Antarctic ice stream: constraints from textural and compositional properties of subglacial debris. J. Sediment. Res., 68(3A), 487 496.
43. Tulaczyk, S. M., B. Kamb and H. F. Engelhardt. 2000a. Basal mechanics of Ice Stream B, West Antarctica. I. Till mechanics, J. Geophys. Res., 105(B1), 463 481.
44. Tulaczyk, S. M., B. Kamb and H. F. Engelhardt. 2000b. Basal mechanics of Ice Stream B, West Antarctica. II. Undrained-plastic-bed model. J. Geophys. Res., 105(B1), 483 494.
45. Van der Veen, C. J. 1999. Fundamental of glacier dynamics. Rotterdam, etc., A. A. Balkema Publishers.