Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-189-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-189-2018
Research article
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19 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 19 Jan 2018

Modelling debris transport within glaciers by advection in a full-Stokes ice flow model

Anna Wirbel, Alexander H. Jarosch, and Lindsey Nicholson

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (20 Nov 2017) by Andreas Vieli
AR by Anna Wirbel on behalf of the Authors (27 Nov 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
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As debris cover affects the meltwater production and behaviour of glaciers it is important to understand how, and over what timescales, it forms. Here we develop an advanced 3-D numerical model that describes transport of sediment through a glacier to the point where it emerges at the surface. The numerical performance of the model is satisfactory and it reproduces debris structures observed within real-world glaciers, thereby offering a useful tool for future studies of debris-covered glaciers.