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Bubble bursts increase melt rates of tidewater glaciers
(2023). Bubble bursts increase melt rates of tidewater glaciers. Nature Geoscience 16(10): 835-836. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01271-7
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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Wengrove, M.E.; Pettit, E.C.; Nash, J.D.; Jackson, R.H.; Skyllingstad, E.D. (2023). Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles. Nature Geoscience 16(10): 871-876. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01262-8, more
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    Marine/Coastal
Abstract
    Glacier ice contains high-pressure air bubbles, which burst into seawater as ice melts at tidewater glacier termini. Laboratory measurements found that these bubbles double the rate of ice melt. Theoretically, this effect could be even larger in a real glacier. However, bursting bubbles are currently neglected in models projecting sea level rise.
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