Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier

By the end of 2018 Kangerlussuaq Glacier in southeast Greenland had retreated further inland than at any time in the past 80 years and its terminus was approaching a region of retrograde bed slope from where further rapid retreat would have been inevitable. Here we show that the retreat occurred bec...

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Published in:	The cryosphere Vol. 13; no. 9; pp. 2303 - 2315
Main Authors:	Bevan, Suzanne L., Luckman, Adrian J., Benn, Douglas I., Cowton, Tom, Todd, Joe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 05.09.2019 Copernicus Publications
Subjects:	Continental shelves Digitization Fjords Glacier retreat Glaciers Ice calving Icebergs Ocean warming Oceans open climate campaign Remote sensing Satellites Sea ice Sea level Software Stability Surface stability Surface water Tidewater Time series Velocity Winter Greenland
ISSN:	1994-0424, 1994-0416, 1994-0424, 1994-0416
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