Blar i forfatter "Christoffersen, Poul"

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    • Cascading lake drainage on the Greenland Ice Sheet triggered by tensile shock and fracture 

      Christoffersen, Poul; Bougamont, Marion; Hubbard, Alun; Doyle, Samuel H.; Grigsby, Shane; Pettersson, Rickard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-14)
      Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet are expanding inland, but the impact on ice flow is equivocal because interior surface conditions may preclude the transfer of surface water to the bed. Here we use a well-constrained 3D model to demonstrate that supraglacial lakes in Greenland drain when tensile-stress perturbations propagate fractures in areas where fractures are normally absent or ...

    • A Full-Stokes 3-D Calving Model Applied to a Large Greenlandic Glacier 

      Todd, Joe; Christoffersen, Poul; Zwinger, Thomas; Råback, Peter; Chauché, Nolwenn; Benn, Doug; Luckman, Adrian; Ryan, Johnny; Toberg, Nick; Slater, Donald; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-30)
      Iceberg calving accounts for around half of all mass loss from both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The diverse nature of calving and its complex links to both internal dynamics and climate make it challenging to incorporate into models of glaciers and ice sheets. Here we present results from a new open‐source 3‐D full‐Stokes calving model developed in Elmer/Ice. The calving model implements ...

    • Physical Conditions of Fast Glacier Flow: 3.Seasonally-Evolving Ice Deformation onStore Glacier, West Greenland 

      Young, Tun Jan; Christoffersen, Poul; Doyle, Samuel H.; Nicholls, Keith W.; Stewart, C.L.; Hubbard, Bryn; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd; Lok, Lai B.; Brennan, Paul V.; Benn, Douglas I; Luckman, Adrian; Bougamont, Marion H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-08)
      Temporal variations in ice sheet flow directly impact the internal structure within ice sheetsthrough englacial deformation. Large-scale changes in the vertical stratigraphy within ice sheets havebeen previously conducted on centennial to millennial timescales; however, intra-annual changes inthe morphology of internal layers have yet to be explored. Over a period of 2 years, we use autonomousphas ...

    • Resolving the internal and basal geometry of ice masses using imaging phase-sensitive radar 

      Young, Tun Jan; Schroeder, Dustin M.; Christoffersen, Poul; Lok, Lai B.; Nicholls, Keith W.; Brennan, Paul V.; Doyle, Samuel H.; Hubbard, Bryn; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-19)
      The phase-sensitive radio-echo sounder (pRES) is a powerful new instrument that can measure the depth of internal layers and the glacier bed to millimetre accuracy. We use a stationary 16-antenna pRES array on Store Glacier in West Greenland to measure the three-dimensional orientation of dipping internal reflectors, extending the capabilities of pRES beyond conventional depth sounding. This novel ...

    • Seismic evidence for complex sedimentary control of Greenland Ice Sheet flow 

      Kulessa, Bernd; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd; Booth, Adam D.; Bougamont, Marion; Dow, Christine F.; Doyle, Samuel H.; Christoffersen, Poul; Lindbäck, Katrin; Pettersson, Rickard; Fitzpatrick, Andrew A.W.; Jones, Glenn A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-16)
      The land-terminating margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet has slowed down in recent decades, although the causes and implications for future ice flow are unclear. Explained originally by a self-regulating mechanism where basal slip reduces as drainage evolves from low to high efficiency, recent numerical modeling invokes a sedimentary control of ice sheet flow as an alternative hypothesis. Although ...

    • UAV photogrammetry and structure from motion to assess calving dynamics at Store Glacier, a large outlet draining the Greenland ice sheet 

      Ryan, Johnny C.; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd; Box, Jason E.; Todd, Joe; Christoffersen, Poul; Carr, J. Rachel; Holt, Tom O.; Snooke, Neal A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-01-06)
      This study presents the application of a costeffective, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to investigate calving dynamics at a major marine-terminating outlet glacier draining the western sector of the Greenland ice sheet. The UAV was flown over Store Glacier on three sorties during summer 2013 and acquired over 2000 overlapping, geotagged images of the calving front at an ∼ 40 cm ground sampling ...