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

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Geir Vatne on behalf of the Authors (08 Jun 2016)

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.