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DOI | 10.1002/2017GL075659 |
Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland | |
Hoffman, Matthew J.1; Perego, Mauro2; Andrews, Lauren C.3; Price, Stephen F.1; Neumann, Thomas A.4; Johnson, Jesse V.5; Catania, Ginny6,7; Luthi, Martin P.8 | |
2018-01-28 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 45期号:2页码:778-788 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Switzerland |
英文摘要 | Moulins permit access of surface meltwater to the glacier bed, causing basal lubrication and ice speedup in the ablation zone of western Greenland during summer. Despite the substantial impact of moulins on ice dynamics, the conditions under which they form are poorly understood. We assimilate a time series of ice surface velocity from a network of eleven Global Positioning System receivers into an ice sheet model to estimate ice sheet stresses during winter, spring, and summer in a similar to 30 x 10 km region. Surface-parallel von Mises stress increases slightly during spring speedup and early summer, sufficient to allow formation of 16% of moulins mapped in the study area. In contrast, 63% of moulins experience stresses over the tensile strength of ice during a short (hours) supraglacial lake drainage event. Lake drainages appear to control moulin density, which is itself a control on subglacial drainage efficiency and summer ice velocities. Plain Language Summary Moulins are the conduits that allow water melting on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet to drain to its base and cause the ice to flow faster. Forming a moulin in Greenland requires a crack on the surface that becomes filled with enough water to drive the crack all the way through the ice. However, a large fraction of moulins in Greenland form away from the ice sheet's crevasse fields, making their formation a mystery. We forced a model of ice sheet flow to match measurements of the ice speed measured by GPS every 2 h. At most of the moulin locations in the area studied, the stresses predicted by the model were too small to fracture the ice and allow moulins to form during winter, spring, and most of summer. However, fracturing did occur at most moulin locations when large lakes on the surface of the ice drained catastrophically to the bed over a few hours. These rare and brief lake drainages must be the cause of most of the moulins, and they therefore have a lasting impact on the flow of water into the ice sheet and the changes in the flow of the ice this causes. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000425514300034 |
WOS关键词 | ICE-SHEET MODEL ; WEST GREENLAND ; ABLATION ZONE ; SUBGLACIAL DRAINAGE ; SOUTHWEST GREENLAND ; SEASONAL EVOLUTION ; JAKOBSHAVN ISBRAE ; BASAL CONDITIONS ; RUSSELL GLACIER ; MASS-BALANCE |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/27961 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Los Alamos Natl Lab, Fluid Dynam & Solid Mech Grp, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; 2.Sandia Natl Labs, Ctr Res Comp, POB 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA; 3.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Global Modeling & Assimilat Off, Greenbelt, MD USA; 4.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Cryospher Sci Lab, Greenbelt, MD USA; 5.Univ Montana, Dept Comp Sci, Missoula, MT 59812 USA; 6.Univ Texas Austin, Inst Geophys, Austin, TX USA; 7.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Geol Sci, Austin, TX USA; 8.Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hoffman, Matthew J.,Perego, Mauro,Andrews, Lauren C.,et al. Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2018,45(2):778-788. |
APA | Hoffman, Matthew J..,Perego, Mauro.,Andrews, Lauren C..,Price, Stephen F..,Neumann, Thomas A..,...&Luthi, Martin P..(2018).Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,45(2),778-788. |
MLA | Hoffman, Matthew J.,et al."Widespread Moulin Formation During Supraglacial Lake Drainages in Greenland".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 45.2(2018):778-788. |
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