Pervasive cold ice within a temperate glacier – implications for glacier thermal regimes, sediment transport and foreland geomorphology

Reinardy, Benedict T. I.; Booth, Adam D.; Hughes, Anna L. C.; Boston, Clare M.; Åkesson, Henning; Bakke, Jostein; Nesje, Atle; Giesen, Rianne H.; Pearce, Danni M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-827-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-827-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-827-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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07 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 07 Mar 2019

Pervasive cold ice within a temperate glacier – implications for glacier thermal regimes, sediment transport and foreland geomorphology

Benedict T. I. Reinardy, Adam D. Booth, Anna L. C. Hughes, Clare M. Boston, Henning Åkesson, Jostein Bakke, Atle Nesje, Rianne H. Giesen, and Danni M. Pearce

Data sets

GPR dataset acquired around the 2014 margin of Norway’s Midtdalsbreen glacier B. T. I. Reinardy, A. Booth, A. Hughes, C. M. Boston, H. Åkesson, J. Bakke, A. Nesje, R. H. Giesen, and D. M. Pearce https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7695662

Short summary

Cold-ice processes may be widespread within temperate glacier systems but the role of cold-ice processes in temperate glacier systems is relatively unknown. Climate forcing is the main control on glacier mass balance but potential for heterogeneous thermal conditions at temperate glaciers calls for improved model assessments of future evolution of thermal conditions and impacts on glacier dynamics and mass balance. Cold-ice processes need to be included in temperate glacier land system models.