Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 471, Issue 2176, 2015, Pages

  Flowers, Gwenn E ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal processes; Cryosphere; Glacier and ice sheet dynamics; Hydraulics; Hydrological models; Subglacial hydrology

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; CRYOSPHERE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; ICE SHEET DYNAMICS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY;

ICE;

EID: 84926298683     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0907     Document Type: Review

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