{"id":8,"date":"2022-04-08T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-04-14T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:58:39","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How fast do tidewater glaciers melt? Quantifying the processes that control boundary layer transport across the ice-ocean interface<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Processes occurring at the ice-ocean interface of marine-terminating glaciers influence the rate of mass loss from the world&#8217;s ice sheets, and dictate the depth at which meltwater enters the ocean.<\/li><li>We hypothesize that submarine melt is controlled by locally-generated turbulence, enhanced by near-boundary currents, and fueled by feedbacks between local melt plumes and interactions with a geometrically-complex ice-ocean interface.<\/li><li>We are coordinating a collection of underwater acoustic, optical, and in-situ unmanned observations at LeConte Glacier, AK. These are the first geophysical observations of the turbulent boundary layer at a near-vertical ice face.<\/li><li>The data are studied within the context of the related subsurface terminus morphology and its melt rate.<\/li><li>We meld methods from glaciology, oceanography, and robotics, combined with high-resolved data and numerical simulations to determine the relevant physics and forcing variables.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fast do tidewater glaciers melt? Quantifying the processes that control boundary layer transport across the ice-ocean interface Processes occurring at the ice-ocean interface of marine-terminating glaciers influence the rate of mass loss from the world&#8217;s ice sheets, and dictate the depth at which meltwater enters the ocean. We hypothesize that submarine melt is controlled&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12448,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/iceocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}