Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2021)

Elastic deformation plays a non-negligible role in Greenland’s outlet glacier flow

  • Julia Christmann,
  • Veit Helm,
  • Shfaqat Abbas Khan,
  • Thomas Kleiner,
  • Ralf Müller,
  • Mathieu Morlighem,
  • Niklas Neckel,
  • Martin Rückamp,
  • Daniel Steinhage,
  • Ole Zeising,
  • Angelika Humbert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00296-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ice flow dynamics in Greenland’s outlet glaciers are influenced by elastic deformation, both in the area of tidal influence up to 14 km inland from the grounding line and further upstream, suggest analyses of GPS observations and numerical simulations.