TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schlemm, Tanja
A1  - Levermann, Anders
T1  - A simple parametrization of mélange buttressing for calving glaciers
T2  - The Cryosphere : TC ; an interactive open access journal of the European Geosciences Union
N2  - Both ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are discharging ice into the ocean. In many regions along the coast of the ice sheets, the icebergs calve into a bay. If the addition of icebergs through calving is faster than their transport out of the embayment, the icebergs will be frozen into a melange with surrounding sea ice in winter. In this case, the buttressing effect of the ice melange can be considerably stronger than any buttressing by mere sea ice would be. This in turn stabilizes the glacier terminus and leads to a reduction in calving rates. Here we propose a simple parametrization of ice melange buttressing which leads to an upper bound on calving rates and can be used in numerical and analytical modelling.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62918
SN  - 1994-0416
SN  - 1994-0424
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 531
EP  - 545
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -