Implications of initial conditions and ice-ocean coupling for grounding-line evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 351-358

  Parizek, Byron R ^a   Walker, Ryan T ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacier dynamics; Ice shelf; Ice stream; Ocean

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; BASAL MELTING; COUPLED MODELS; FLOW DIRECTION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GROUNDING LINE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHELF; ICE SHELVES; ICE STREAM; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ISOTHERMAL MODELS; MULTIPLE STEADY STATE; NEW MODEL; OCEAN; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PLUME MODEL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SMALL PERTURBATIONS;

FEEDBACK; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDRAULICS; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE;

BASAL MELTING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COUPLING; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SEA ICE;

EID: 78649778681     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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