most simulations, the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body [...] Glaciology
Melting glaciers are a major contributor to global sea-level rise. In order to project the latter as precisely as possible, all relevant processes at work in the world’s large glaciers must [...] on the coast of Greenland, the experts showed that ocean tides produce elastic deformation in the ice, reaching several kilometres inland. The study was just released in the journal Nature Communications: