Sentences with phrase «induced glacier acceleration»
The data suggested that, like mountain glaciers, melt - induced glacier acceleration actually stops in years of intense melting once subglacial water erodes through the sediments and creates channels for water flow (Sundal et al. 2011).
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Joughin and others, 2008 observed that seasonal drainage of meltwater to the glacier bed induces a uniform acceleration of 50 — 150 meters / year over a ~ 300 km long section of the West Greenland margin that is not drained by outlet glaciers, causing a large fractional acceleration of the interior ice sheet but a small fractional change in the speed of fast - moving outlet glaciers.