Journal
JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 205, Pages 904-916Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3189/002214311798043834
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- Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry
- Science Foundation Ireland mathematics initiative [06/MI/005]
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Between 2003 and 2007, North Gasherbrum Glacier on the northeastern slope of the Karakoram mountains in Asia underwent a dramatic acceleration, during which a velocity wave propagated down the glacier. There was a significant transfer of ice from up-glacier downstream, which resulted in a strong surface elevation increase over the lower tongue, but only a moderate advance of the glacier snout. We interpret this behaviour as that of a glacier surge, and we explain the observations by means of a simple version of the Kamb drainage-switching theory.
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