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Subglacial Floods

Subglacial Floods is a hydrological phenomenon characterized by the sudden, large-scale release of water beneath a glacier or ice sheet, distinguished from other subglacial discharge events by its rapid onset, high magnitude, and capacity to significantly alter subglacial drainage networks and ice dynamics.

370

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23.2K

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1.2K

Authors

531

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2017–2026

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Variants

Jökulhlaups

Parents

Publications

370

Massive iceberg discharges as triggers for global climate change

Wallace S. Broecker · Nature · 1994 · 858 citations

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A global assessment of the societal impacts of glacier outburst floods

Jonathan L. Carrivick, Fiona S. Tweed · Global and Planetary Change · 2016 · 503 citations

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Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods

Stephan Harrison, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Christian Huggel et al. · ˜The œcryosphere · 2018 · 434 citations · Full text

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Modelling outburst floods from moraine-dammed glacial lakes

Matthew Westoby, Neil F. Glasser, James Brasington et al. · Earth-Science Reviews · 2014 · 391 citations

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Increased flow speed on a large East Antarctic outlet glacier caused by subglacial floods

L. A. Stearns, B. E. Smith, G. S. Hamilton · Nature Geoscience · 2008 · 384 citations

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Authors

1.2K

  1. OK
    Oliver Korup

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    9 publications · 803 citations

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  2. GK
    Garry K. C. Clarke

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    8 publications · 817 citations

    8

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  3. GV
    Georg Veh

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    8 publications · 762 citations

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  4. AE
    Adam Emmer

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute, Czechia

    8 publications · 860 citations

    8

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  5. JS
    Joseph S. Walder

    Cascades Volcano Observatory, United States

    8 publications · 545 citations

    8

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Institutions

531

  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    18 h-index

    40 publications

    2.5K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    14 h-index

    60 publications

    4.7K citations

  3. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    898 citations

  4. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    32 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. University of Iceland

    Reykjavik, Iceland

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    983 citations

  7. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  8. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    11 h-index

    37 publications

    2.8K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Glaciology

    34 publications · 1.7K citations

    22

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  2. Annals of Glaciology

    18 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Geology

    13 publications · 628 citations

    12

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  4. Hydrological Processes

    11 publications · 873 citations

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  5. Quaternary Science Reviews

    11 publications · 623 citations

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