Steady Motion of Ice Sheets
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Steady Motion of Ice Sheets
Steady plane flow under gravity of a symmetric ice sheet resting on a horizontal rigid bed, subject to surface accumulation and ablation, basal drainage, and basal sliding according to a shear-tractionvelocity power law, is treated . The surface accumulation is taken to depend on height, and the drainage and sliding coefficient also depend on the height of overlying ice. The ice is described as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Glaciology
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0022-1430,1727-5652
DOI: 10.3189/s0022143000010467