Movie:An Alpine Glacier's Drainage System: Gornergletscher drainage system

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Key Attributes

Domain: terrestrial, hydrology
Model name:
Name: Mauro, Werder
Where: Gornergletscher, Switzerland
When: One Season


Short Description

Grade level: Under graduate (13-16), Graduate / Professional

Statement: Liquid water routing in an alpine glacier

Abstract: Subglacial discharge simulated for Gornergletscher: arrows depict discharge in the distributed system, blue shows discharge in channels.

Theory

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Liquid water is thought to move through alpine glaciers as diffuse and channelized flow, and is governed by the pressure field created by the weight of overlying ice. This 2-D model combines the governing equations for both types of flow to model the movement of water in the the Gornergletscher, an alpine glacier in Switzerland.

A video of the talk Mauro Werder gave at the CSDMS 2013 annual meeting on glacial hydrology is available on the CSDMS website, http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSDMS_2013_annual_meeting_Mauro_Werder

Links

http://www.sfu.ca/~mawerder/


References



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