Ice streams - Fast, and faster?

Richard B. Alley; Sridhar Anandakrishnan; Todd K. Dupont; Byron R. Parizek

doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2004.08.002

Ice streams - Fast, and faster?

Richard B. Alley, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Todd K. Dupont, Byron R. Parizek

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Abstract

Rapid flow of ice streams is caused either by great thickness, or by effective basal lubrication especially from deforming tills. Competing thermal processes act to stabilize and to destabilize the well-lubricated ice streams, and may contribute to their observed short-term variability yet long-term persistence. Increasing evidence indicates that ice streams are subject to speed-up in response to warming, through thinning or loss of ice shelves, and possibly in response to meltwater penetration to ice-stream beds.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	723-734
Number of pages	12
Journal	Comptes Rendus Physique
Volume	5
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2004.08.002
State	Published - Sep 2004

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General Physics and Astronomy

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title = "Ice streams - Fast, and faster?",

abstract = "Rapid flow of ice streams is caused either by great thickness, or by effective basal lubrication especially from deforming tills. Competing thermal processes act to stabilize and to destabilize the well-lubricated ice streams, and may contribute to their observed short-term variability yet long-term persistence. Increasing evidence indicates that ice streams are subject to speed-up in response to warming, through thinning or loss of ice shelves, and possibly in response to meltwater penetration to ice-stream beds.",

author = "Alley, {Richard B.} and Sridhar Anandakrishnan and Dupont, {Todd K.} and Parizek, {Byron R.}",

note = "Funding Information: We thank numerous colleagues in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Project, the West Antarctic Ice Cores Project and elsewhere for ideas and discussions, Ian Joughin for the base data in Fig. 2, Paul Duval and Jerome Weiss for helpful suggestions on the manuscript, and the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs for funding through grants including 0126187, 0229629 and 9814774; partial funding also was provided by the G. Comer Foundation.",

year = "2004",

month = sep,

doi = "10.1016/j.crhy.2004.08.002",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "5",

pages = "723--734",

journal = "Comptes Rendus Physique",

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