Thermal Weakening, Convergent Flow, and Vertical Heat Transport in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream Shear Margins

Abstract Ice streams are bounded by abrupt transitions in speed called shear margins. Some shear margins are fixed by subglacial topography, but others are thought to be self‐organizing, evolving by thermal feedback to ice viscosity and basal drag which govern the stress balance of ice sheets. Resis...

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Main Authors: N. Holschuh, D. A. Lilien, K. Christianson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-07-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083436
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