Sentences with phrase «outlet glacier flowed»

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Also, the outlet glaciers on Greenland are all variable in flow speed and ice discharge, and I think RC did something before on the acceleration of Jakobshavns Isbrae.

This is in fact increasingly observed around the edges of Greenland and Antarctica in recent years: outlet glaciers and ice streams that drain the ice sheets have greatly accelerated their flow.

The margins usually slope more steeply, and most ice is discharged through fast - flowing ice streams or outlet glaciers, in some cases into the sea or into ice shelves floating on the sea.

Examination of recent rapid supraglacial (i.e. on the surface) lake drainage documented short term velocity changes due to such events around 10 %, but little significance to the annual flow of the large glaciers outlet glaciers (Das et.al, 2008).

There is a potential difference between the two, in glacier such as most marine terminating outlet glaciers, where the glacier flow is rapid, acceleration results from retreat and thinning.

This mechanism has been examined in detail and has yielded short term accelerations in the 10 - 20 % range (Zwally et al, 2002)(Das et al, 2008), but is of little significance to the annual flow of the large outlet glaciers.

This is not the case on the rapid flowing marine terminating outlet glaciers.

Between the fast flowing marine terminating outlet glaciers, the ice sheet particularly in the southwest quadrant has numerous glaciers that terminate on land or in small lakes.

The fast flowing marine terminating outlet glaciers of western and southeast Greenland (Rinks, Umiamako, Helheim, Jakobshavn, Epiq Sermia and Kangerdlussaq)

Pine Island glacier, which flows into the Amundsen Sea, is one of the main outlets for West Antarctic ice.