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  • 1
    Publication Date: 1973-12-01
    Print ISSN: 0031-9201
    Electronic ISSN: 1872-7395
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Published by Elsevier
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 1993-01-01
    Description: Digital airborne-radar data were collected during the 1988–89 Antarctic field season in six gridded blocks covering the upstream parts of Ice Streams A, Β and C. An automated processing procedure was developed for picking onset times, converting travel times, interpolating missing data, converting pressure-transducer readings, correcting navigational drift, performing cross-over analysis and zeroing remanent cross-over errors. Cross-over analysis was used to remove the effects of temporal variations in atmospheric pressure and to estimate errors. Interpolation between flight lines was carried out using the Kriging method. Surface elevation was referred to the Rapp Set A geoid by tying the gridded surface to satellite-surveyed ground stations, using a planar-model fit.Maps of surface elevation, ice thickness and bottom topography with standard-error estimates of 4–9 m for surface elevation and 30–60 m for ice thickness and bottom topography were produced. These maps show that the locations of the ice streams are not clearly reflected in either the surface or basal topography, so are presumably controled by basal or internal conditions, that there is no clearly demarcated transition zone between sheet flow and streaming flow, that there is no clear cut evidence for the capture of the catchment of Ice Stream C by Ice Stream B, but that Ice Stream Β does drain virtually the entire region between the lateral boundaries of Ice Streams A and C.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
    Topics: Geography , Geosciences
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1986-01-01
    Description: Grain growth observed in polar ice that is not deforming rapidly can be accounted for if concentrations and distributions of extrinsic materials (microparticles, bubbles, and dissolved impurities) are characterized fully. Dissolved impurities segregate to grain boundaries and slow grain growth in all cold glacial ice. The high concentration of soluble impurities in Wisconsinan ice from the Dome C (Antarctica) ice core (and perhaps other ice cores) probably causes the small grain-sizes observed in that ice. Microparticles have little effect on grain growth in ordinary ice. In ice layers that appear dirty owing to concentrations of volcanic tephra (such as in the Byrd Station (Antarctica) ice core) or of morainal material, micro particles reduce grain-growth rates significantly. The relatively high vapor pressure of ice allows rapid growth and high mobility of intergranular necks, so grain growth in firn is limited by boundary migration rather than by neck growth. Bubbles formed by pore close-off at the firn-ice transition are less mobile than grain boundaries, causing bubble-boundary separation whenever geometric constraints are satisfied; however, such separation reduces grain-growth rates by only about 10%. The observed linear increase of grain area with time is thus predicted by theory, but the growth rate depends on soluble-impurity concentrations as well as on temperature.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 1986-01-01
    Description: Many observations regarding grain growth in ice sheets are glaciologically interesting but imperfectly understood. Here we develop the theory of grain growth in ice that is not deforming rapidly, and in the succeeding paper we use this theory to explain observations from glacial ice. In the absence of significant strain energy, the driving force for grain growth arises from grain-boundary curvature. Grain growth is slowed by the interaction of grain boundaries with extrinsic materials (microparticles, bubbles, and dissolved impurities). If the driving force for growth is not large enough to cause boundaries to separate from an extrinsic material, then the grain-boundary velocity is determined by the velocity characteristic of the extrinsic material (low-velocity regime). If the driving force is large enough to cause separation, then boundaries migrate more rapidly than the extrinsic material (high-velocity regime) but the net driving force is reduced through transient pinning by the extrinsic material. Polar ice is typically in the low-velocity regime relative to dissolved impurities and the high-velocity regime relative to microparticles and bubbles. Cross-sectional area of grains is predicted to increase linearly with time under most but not all circumstances.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1986-01-01
    Description: Many observations regarding grain growth in ice sheets are glaciologically interesting but imperfectly understood. Here we develop the theory of grain growth in ice that is not deforming rapidly, and in the succeeding paper we use this theory to explain observations from glacial ice. In the absence of significant strain energy, the driving force for grain growth arises from grain-boundary curvature. Grain growth is slowed by the interaction of grain boundaries with extrinsic materials (microparticles, bubbles, and dissolved impurities). If the driving force for growth is not large enough to cause boundaries to separate from an extrinsic material, then the grain-boundary velocity is determined by the velocity characteristic of the extrinsic material (low-velocity regime). If the driving force is large enough to cause separation, then boundaries migrate more rapidly than the extrinsic material (high-velocity regime) but the net driving force is reduced through transient pinning by the extrinsic material. Polar ice is typically in the low-velocity regime relative to dissolved impurities and the high-velocity regime relative to microparticles and bubbles. Cross-sectional area of grains is predicted to increase linearly with time under most but not all circumstances.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 1994-01-01
    Description: Sliding at the base of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada, was measured using a “drag spool”. We describe this simple and inexpensive instrument as well as its installation and operation. From 1990 to 1992 seven sites were instrumented with drag spools. At six of the sites basal sliding, during the period of observation, accounted for 50-70% of the total flow observed at the glacier surface. The contribution from ice creep is known to be small, so most of the remaining surface motion must be attributed to subglacial sediment deformation. For the seventh site the observed sliding rate was ~ 90% of the total flow, an indication that the sliding contribution varies spatially across the bed. Diurnal variations in the response of one of our instruments appear to be correlated to subglacial water-pressure fluctuations and are interpreted in terms of changes in sliding velocity rather than the opening and closing of basal cavities.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1993-01-01
    Description: Digital airborne-radar data were collected during the 1988–89 Antarctic field season in six gridded blocks covering the upstream parts of Ice Streams A, Β and C. An automated processing procedure was developed for picking onset times, converting travel times, interpolating missing data, converting pressure-transducer readings, correcting navigational drift, performing cross-over analysis and zeroing remanent cross-over errors. Cross-over analysis was used to remove the effects of temporal variations in atmospheric pressure and to estimate errors. Interpolation between flight lines was carried out using the Kriging method. Surface elevation was referred to the Rapp Set A geoid by tying the gridded surface to satellite-surveyed ground stations, using a planar-model fit.Maps of surface elevation, ice thickness and bottom topography with standard-error estimates of 4–9 m for surface elevation and 30–60 m for ice thickness and bottom topography were produced. These maps show that the locations of the ice streams are not clearly reflected in either the surface or basal topography, so are presumably controled by basal or internal conditions, that there is no clearly demarcated transition zone between sheet flow and streaming flow, that there is no clear cut evidence for the capture of the catchment of Ice Stream C by Ice Stream B, but that Ice Stream Β does drain virtually the entire region between the lateral boundaries of Ice Streams A and C.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1976-01-01
    Description: During the 1973-74 Antarctic field season, two electrical resistivity profiles were completed along directions perpendicular to each other at a site in the south-easternpart of the Ross Ice Shelf. These profiles differ from each other only at short electrode spacings (less than 10 m) indicating no measurable horizontal anisotropy below the uppermost firn zone. The shape of the apparent resistivity curves is similar to that found by Hochstein on the Ross Ice Shelf near Roosevelt Island, but is displaced toward lower resistivities despite the colder 10 m temperature (—29°C instead of —26°C) at the more southerly site. Some factor other than temperature must therefore be effective in determining the overall magnitude of the resistivities in the shelf, although the variation with depth can still be expected to be primarily a temperature phenomenon.A computer program has been written to calculate apparent resistivities based on Crary’s analysis of temperatures in an ice shelf. Results are not yet available; when completed they should indicate the sensitivity of the resistivity measurements to differences in the temperature- depth profile, and hence their usefulness in estimating bottom melt/freeze rates.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 1976-01-01
    Description: During the 1973-74 Antarctic field season, two electrical resistivity profiles were completed along directions perpendicular to each other at a site in the south-easternpart of the Ross Ice Shelf. These profiles differ from each other only at short electrode spacings (less than 10 m) indicating no measurable horizontal anisotropy below the uppermost firn zone. The shape of the apparent resistivity curves is similar to that found by Hochstein on the Ross Ice Shelf near Roosevelt Island, but is displaced toward lower resistivities despite the colder 10 m temperature (—29°C instead of —26°C) at the more southerly site. Some factor other than temperature must therefore be effective in determining the overall magnitude of the resistivities in the shelf, although the variation with depth can still be expected to be primarily a temperature phenomenon. A computer program has been written to calculate apparent resistivities based on Crary’s analysis of temperatures in an ice shelf. Results are not yet available; when completed they should indicate the sensitivity of the resistivity measurements to differences in the temperature- depth profile, and hence their usefulness in estimating bottom melt/freeze rates.
    Print ISSN: 0022-1430
    Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 1987-01-01
    Description: Resistive force exerted by the Crary Ice Rise on its ice-shelf/ice-stream environment and back-pressure force transmitted across the grounding lines of Ice Streams A and B are calculated from airborne radio echo-sounding data and measurements of surface strain-rates. Resistance generated by the ice rise ranges in magnitude between 45 and 51% of the back-pressure force on the ice streams (depending on the flow law). The mechanical-energy budget of the ice rise is computed by considering work done against frictional forces at the perimeter of the ice rise and gravitational potential energy fluxes associated with changing mass distribution in the ice/ocean system. Energy dissipated by flow surrounding the ice rise is balanced by potential energy released within Ice Streams A and B, and accounts for between 15 and 49% of the work done by the ice streams against ice-shelf back pressure at their grounding lines. Mass balance of the ice rise, and the discharge of Ice Streams A and B, are calculated from surface-velocity and snow-accumulation measurements. The ice rise and its immediate environment gain mass by advection and snowfall at a rate equivalent to an area-averaged thickening rate of 0.44 ± 0.06 m/year. This mass gain may be balanced by regional basal melting (which we do not measure), or could contribute to ice-rise expansion through regional thickening and ice-shelf grounding. Approximately 1/4 to 1/2 of the excess volume discharged by Ice Streams A and B above snow accumulation in their catchment areas is deposited in the vicinity of the ice rise (or melted from the bottom of the ice shelf). This suggests that the ice rise may have formed as a consequence of recent ice-stream acceleration, and that its continued growth may eventually reverse this trend of ice-stream discharge.
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