Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel

Vatne, Geir; Irvine-Fynn, Tristram D. L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2947-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2947-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2947-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 7

Research article

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21 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 21 Jul 2016

Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel

Geir Vatne and Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn

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Final revised paper (published on 21 Jul 2016)
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RC C3435: 'Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel', Paul Carling, 02 Sep 2015
- AC C4840: 'Response to reviewer 1', Geir Vatne, 12 Nov 2015
RC C3683: 'Review comments on "Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel"', K.L. Riverman, 16 Sep 2015
- AC C4839: 'Response to reviewer 2', Geir Vatne, 12 Nov 2015
RC C3840: 'Review of Vatne and Irvine-Fynn 2015: Morphological dynamics of an englacial channel', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Sep 2015
- AC C4757: 'Response to reviewer 3', Geir Vatne, 09 Nov 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (16 Nov 2015) by Bettina Schaefli

AR by Geir Vatne on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Apr 2016) by Bettina Schaefli

RR by Paul Carling (25 Apr 2016)

ED: Publish as is (02 Jun 2016) by Bettina Schaefli

Short summary

Ten years of direct observations of an englacial conduit in a cold based glacier in Svalbard document for the first time how a vertical meltwater waterfall (moulin) is formed from gradual incision of a meltwater channel. This evolution appears to be dominated by knickpoints that incise upstream at rates several times faster than the vertical incision in adjacent near horizontal channel sections.