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Plastic Modelling of Glaciers and Outlets

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Ice in the Climate System

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In reconstruction of past ice sheets a plastic approach is often used in order to get a quick estimate of the shape and thickness of an ice sheet. The basic in the model has been that the bottom shear stress is assumed constant along a flowline (Orowan, 1949). This gives a simple calculation scheme for an ice sheet profile with an arbitrary bed surface. The unit “force” that cause this bottom shear stress is popularly called “driving stress”.

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  1. Norwegian Polar Research Institute, Postbox 158, 1330, Oslo Lufthavn, Norway

    Øyvind Armand Høydal

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, M5S 1A7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    W. Richard Peltier

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Høydal, Ø.A. (1993). Plastic Modelling of Glaciers and Outlets. In: Peltier, W.R. (eds) Ice in the Climate System. NATO ASI Series, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85016-5_4

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