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This research aims to understand how glaciers and ice-sheets respond to seasonal and climatic changes in accumulation.

The response of glaciers and ice-sheets to seasonal and climatic changes

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The study examines how glaciers respond to accumulation changes, indicating climate sensitivity.

This research aims to understand how glaciers and ice-sheets respond to seasonal and climatic changes in accumulation.
Analyzed the flow of glaciers as a one-dimensional system influenced by snowfall and melting.
Applied Lighthill & Whitham’s kinematic wave theory to a model of glacier response to changes in accumulation.
Calculated response times and behaviors of glaciers under different climatic conditions.
Glaciers thicken significantly with minimal changes in accumulation, demonstrating high sensitivity to climate.
The response time varies, with the Antarctic ice-sheet taking about 5000 years and typical glaciers 3 to 30 years.
Interference between direct and delayed responses in glacial flow leads to varied behaviors among different glaciers.

J. F. Nye (1960) studied this question.

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