RealClimate logo  Moulins, Calving Fronts and Greenland Outlet
Glacier Acceleration   Guest Commentary by Mauri Pelto   The
Acceleration:                    1. 1     Phil. Felton says:
Thanks for the report, I have one question:      yet your photo
appears to show a widening at the 2006 position. Would you like
to comment?    2. 2     David Wilson says:      not a criticism
per se … but this motion of glaciers is complex: at once moving
in one direction, retreating in the other and thinning – it
therefore seems like a constructive idea to make these motions
clear at the outset, people can then form a type of cognitive
map, and this will (of course) contribute to understanding,
retention and so forth    3. 3     Andrew says:      Ice loss in
Greenland seems to be constrained by outlet glacier calving
rates. Is there a point where the mountains ringing Greenland
open up such that as the calving fronts continue to retreat,
they will begin to greatly widen? Essentially uncorking the
plugs to the Greenland Ic