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A cross-polar modeling approach to hindcast paleo-arctig mega icebergs : a storyboard

Furrer, Reinhard; Jakobsson, Martin; Kirchner, Nina (2014). A cross-polar modeling approach to hindcast paleo-arctig mega icebergs : a storyboard. In: Durán, J J; Guardiola-Albert, C; Heredia, J; Moreno-Merino, L; Pardo-Igúzquiza, E; Vargas-Guzmán, J A. Mathematics of planet earth. Berlin: Springer, 41-44.

Abstract

Recent geophysical mapping of the Arctic seafloor has revealed extensive erosion caused by ice and glacial landforms on ridge crests and plateaus where present water depths are shallower than . Such erosion stems from thick outlet glaciers and massive ice shelf complexes. Cores and glacigenic landforms suggest that the largest ice shelf complex was confined to the Amerasian sector of the Arctic Ocean, roughly 135,000 years ago. We apply a peak over threshold approach to assess whether the calving fronts of this ice shelf complex comprise a likely source of the deep draft icebergs responsible for the mapped plow marks. This approach is novel to modeling Arctic paleoglacial configurations. Predicted extreme calving front drafts match observed deep-draft iceberg marks if the ice shelf complex is sufficiently large. We explain the methodology of Kirchner, Furrer, Jakobsson and coauthors [1] in a storyboard framework, i.e., with figures and sketches. Here, we extend their approach by using shelf specific threshold selection, an alternative estimate to scale ‘coastlines’, supervised pooling of estimates and uncertainty estimates based on parametric bootstrap. For theoretical details as well as details about the precise origin and preprocessing of the data we refer to [1], much of the statistical theory is covered in [2, 2].

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Item Type:Book Section, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Mathematics
07 Faculty of Science > Department of Astrophysics
Dewey Decimal Classification:510 Mathematics
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Computers in Earth Sciences
Physical Sciences > General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Language:English
Date:2014
Deposited On:23 Sep 2014 13:35
Last Modified:11 Jul 2025 01:38
Publisher:Springer
Series Name:Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
Number:2014
ISSN:2193-8571
ISBN:978-3-642-32408-6
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_10
Related URLs:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-32408-6_10 (Publisher)
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