Calving rates at tidewater glaciers vary strongly with ocean temperature

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Luckman, Adrian ^a,b   Benn, Douglas I ^b,c   Cottier, Finlo ^d,e   Bevan, Suzanne ^a   Nilsen, Frank ^b,f   Inall, Mark ^d  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; ICE BREAKUP; ICE FLOW; ICEBERG CALVING; OCEANIC FRONT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; TIDEWATER GLACIER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84944112102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9566     Document Type: Article

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