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Author : Boon, S.; Burgess, D.; Copland, L.; Flowers, G.; Kavanaugh, J.; Marshall, S.; Sharp, M.; and Tarasov, L. (Presented by Lev Tarasov )
Date : 2008.
Title : Global warming and polar tidewater glacier response: a Canadian IPY project on Belcher Glacier, Nunavut.
Publication : Water, Weather, and Climate: Science Informing Decisions. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 2008 Congress. May 25-29, 2008, Kelowna, British Columbia.
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The goal of the IPY project "Glaciodyn" is to investigate the role of ice dynamics in the response of Arctic glaciers and ice caps to global warming, with a view to improving our ability to predict future changes and their impact on sea level and fresh water fluxes to the ocean. The Canadian contribution to Glaciodyn is focused on the Belcher Glacier drainage basin in the northeast sector of the Devon Island ice cap, Nunavut. This is the fastest flowing outlet from the ice cap and a major iceberg calving source. The project involves an intensive field and remote sensing study of the hydrology and dynamics of the glacier, closely linked to the development and validation of a state-of-the-art high order coupled model of ice flow dynamics, ice calving, and glacier hydrology. This model will be used to test hypotheses about the effects of climate warming on meltwater inputs to Arctic outlet glaciers and their impact on ice flow, and to perform simulations of the response of the Belcher Glacier system to recent and projected future changes.
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