An enthalpy formulation for glaciers and ice sheets
| Autor: | Constantine Khroulev, Andy Aschwanden, Heinz Blatter, Ed Bueler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
geography geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ice stream Greenland ice sheet Glacier Atmospheric sciences 01 natural sciences Glaciology Ice-sheet model Sea ice growth processes Sea ice thickness Ice sheet Geomorphology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Glaciology. 58:441-457 |
| ISSN: | 1727-5652 0022-1430 |
| Popis: | Polythermal conditions are ubiquitous among glaciers, from small valley glaciers to ice sheets. Conventional temperature-based ‘cold-ice’ models of such ice masses cannot account for that portion of the internal energy which is latent heat of liquid water within temperate ice, so such schemes are not energy-conserving when temperate ice is present. Temperature and liquid water fraction are, however, functions of a single enthalpy variable: a small enthalpy change in cold ice is a change in temperature, while a small enthalpy change in temperate ice is a change in liquid water fraction. The unified enthalpy formulation described here models the mass and energy balance for the threedimensional ice fluid, for the surface runoff layer and for the subglacial hydrology layer, together in a single energy-conserving theoretical framework. It is implemented in the Parallel Ice Sheet Model. Results for the Greenland ice sheet are compared with those from a cold-ice scheme. This paper is intended to be an accessible foundation for enthalpy formulations in glaciology. |
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