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DOI	10.5194/tc-12-3383-2018
	Basal control of supraglacial meltwater catchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet
	Crozier J.; Karlstrom L.; Yang K.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	19940416
卷号	12 期号:10
英文摘要	Ice surface topography controls the routing of surface meltwater generated in the ablation zones of glaciers and ice sheets. Meltwater routing is a direct source of ice mass loss as well as a primary influence on subglacial hydrology and basal sliding of the ice sheet. Although the processes that determine ice sheet topography at the largest scales are known, controls on the topographic features that influence meltwater routing at supraglacial internally drained catchment (IDC) scales (< 10s of km) are less well constrained. Here we examine the effects of two processes on ice sheet surface topography: Transfer of bed topography to the surface of flowing ice and thermal-fluvial erosion by supraglacial meltwater streams. We implement 2-D basal transfer functions in seven study regions of the western Greenland Ice Sheet ablation zone using recent data sets for bed elevation, ice surface elevation, and ice surface velocities. We find that 1-10 km scale ice surface features can be explained well by bed topography transfer in regions with different multiyear-averaged ice flow conditions. We use flow-routing algorithms to extract supraglacial stream networks from 2 to 5 m resolution digital elevation models and compare these with synthetic flow networks calculated on ice surfaces predicted by bed topography transfer. Multiple geomorphological metrics calculated for these networks suggest that bed topography can explain general 1-10 km supraglacial meltwater routing and that thermal-fluvial erosion thus has a lesser role in shaping ice surface topography on these scales. We then use bed topography transfer functions and flow routing to conduct a parameter study predicting how supraglacial IDC configurations and subglacial hydraulic potential would change under varying multiyear-averaged ice flow and basal sliding regimes. Predicted changes to subglacial hydraulic flow pathways directly caused by changing ice surface topography are subtle, but temporal changes in basal sliding or ice thickness have potentially significant influences on IDC spatial distribution. We suggest that changes to IDC size and number density could affect subglacial hydrology primarily by dispersing the englacial-subglacial input of surface meltwater. © 2018 Author(s).
学科领域	ablation; catchment; digital elevation model; glacial hydrology; ice flow; ice sheet; meltwater; sliding; subglacial environment; topography; Arctic; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet
语种	英语
scopus关键词	ablation; catchment; digital elevation model; glacial hydrology; ice flow; ice sheet; meltwater; sliding; subglacial environment; topography; Arctic; Greenland; Greenland Ice Sheet
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119043
作者单位	University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States; School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China; Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing, 100875, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Crozier J.,Karlstrom L.,Yang K.. Basal control of supraglacial meltwater catchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet[J],2018,12(10).
APA	Crozier J.,Karlstrom L.,&Yang K..(2018).Basal control of supraglacial meltwater catchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet.Cryosphere,12(10).
MLA	Crozier J.,et al."Basal control of supraglacial meltwater catchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet".Cryosphere 12.10(2018).