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|a Stability of ice-sheet grounding lines |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b The Royal Society, |c 2010. |
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|a Recent observations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet document rapid changes in the
mass balance of its component glaciers. These observations raise the question of whether
changing climatic conditions have triggered a dynamical instability in the ice-sheet–iceshelf
system. The dynamics of marine ice sheets are sensitive to grounding-line position
and variation, characteristics that are poorly captured by most current models. We
present a theory for grounding-line dynamics in three spatial dimensions and time. Our
theory is based on a balance of forces across the grounding line; it is expressed as a
differential equation that is analogous to the canonical Stefan condition. We apply this
theory to the question of grounding-line stability under conditions of retrograde bed slope
in a suite of calculations with different basal topography. A subset of these have basal
topography inspired by the Pine Island glacier, where basal depth varies in both the
along-flow and across-flow directions. Our results indicate that unstable retreat of the
grounding line over retrograde beds is a robust feature of models that evolve based on
force balance at the grounding line. We conclude, based on our simplified model, that
unstable grounding-line recession may already be occurring at the Pine Island glacier. |
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