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The motion of ice stream margins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

A. C. Fowler
A. C. Fowler*
Affiliation:
MACSI, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland OCIAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK
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†Email address for correspondence: fowler@maths.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

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The recent article by Schoof (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 712, 2012, pp. 552–578) provides a technically demanding solution to the problem of determining ice-stream margin evolution. It is important in opening the way to the future theoretical description of how the ice sheets will melt and sea level will rise as the climate warms. But the sophistication of the mathematics should not operate as a mask to an examination of the credibility of the model.

JFM classification

Geophysical and Geological Flows: Ice sheets Low-Reynolds-number flows: Lubrication theory Wakes/Jets: Shear layers
Type
Focus on Fluids
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 714 , 10 January 2013 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
©2013 Cambridge University Press

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