Recent Publications (1999-2011)

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Reuten, C., R. D. Moore, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2011. Quantifying boundary-layer effects in 20 m temperature observations. J. Appl. Meteorol., in press.

Jarosch, A. H., F. S. Anslow, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2010. High resolution precipitation and temperature downscaling for glacier models. Clim. Dynam., in press.

Berthier, E., E. Schiefer, G. K. C. Clarke, B. Menounos, and F. Rémy. 2010. Contribution of Alaskan glaciers to sea-level rise derived from satellite altimetry. Nature Geosci., 3, 92-95.

Alley, R. B., J. T. Andrews, J. Brigham-Grette, G. K. C. Clarke, K. M. Cuffey, J. J. Fitzpatrick, S. Funder, S. J. Marshall, G. H. Miller, J. X. Mitrovica, D. R. Muhs, B. Otto-Bliesner, L. Polyak, and J. W. C. White. 2009. History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Paleoclimatic insights. Quat. Sci. Rev., 29(15-16), 1728-1756.

Alley, R. B., J. T. Andrews, J. Brigham-Grette, G. K. C. Clarke, K. M. Cuffey, J. J. Fitzpatrick, S. Funder, S. J. Marshall, G. H. Miller, J. X. Mitrovica, D. R. Muhs, B. Otto-Bliesner, L. Polyak, and J. W. C. White. 2009. Past climate variability and change in the Arctic and at high latitudes. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Produce 1.2, Chapter 6, History of the Greenland Ice Sheet. [PDF (17.6 MB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., A. B. G. Bush, and J. W. M. Bush. 2009. Freshwater discharge, sediment transport, and modeled climate impacts of the final drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz. J. Climate, 22(8), 2161-2180. [PDF (2.79 MB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., E. Berthier, C. G. Schoof, and A. H. Jarosch. 2009. Neural networks applied to estimating subglacial topography and glacier volume. J. Climate, 22(8), 2146-2160. [PDF (5.34 MB)]

Lipovski, P. S., S. G. Evans, J. J. Clague, C. Hopkinson, R. Couture, P. Bobrowsky, G. Ekström, M. N. Demuth, K. B. Delaney, N. J. Roberts, G. Clarke, and A. Schaeffer. 2008. The July 2007 rock and ice avalanches at Mount Steele, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Landslides, 5, 445-455.

Flowers, G. H., H. Björnsson, Á. Geirsdóttir, G. H. Miller, J. L. Black, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2008. Holocene climate conditions and glacier variation in central Iceland from physical modelling and empirical evidence. Quat. Sci. Rev., 27, 797-813.

Flowers, G. E., H. Björnsson, Á. Geirsdóttir, G. H. Miller, J. L. Black, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2007. Glacier fluctuation and inferred climatology of Langjökull ice cap through the Little Ice Age. Quat. Sci. Rev., 26, 2337-2353.

Schoof, C., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2008. A model for spiral flows in basal ice and the formation of subglacial flutes based on a Reiner-Rivlin rheology for glacial ice. J. Geophys. Res., 113, B05204, doi:10.1029/2007JB004957.

Hobbie, J. F., A. Baker, G. K. C. Clarke, P. T. Doran, D. Karl, B. Methé, H. Miller, S. B. Mukasa, M. Race, D. Walton, and J. White. 2007. Exploration of Antarctic subglacial aquatic environments: Environmental and scientific stewardship. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 210pp.

Frappé-Sénéclauze, T.-P., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2007. Slow surge of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada. J. Geophys. Res., 112, F03S32, doi:10.1029/2006JF000607.

Kavanaugh, J. L., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2006. Discrimination of the flow law for subglacial sediment using in situ measurements and an interpretation model. J. Geophys. Res., 111, F01002, doi:10.1029/2005JF000346.

Clarke, G. K. C. 2006. Ice-sheet plumbing in Antarctica. Nature, 440, 1000-1001.

Lhomme, N., G. K. C. Clarke, and C. Ritz. 2005. Global budget of water isotopes inferred from polar ice sheets Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20502, doi:10.1029/2005GL023774. [PDF (258 KB)]

Marshall, S. J., H. Björnsson, G. E. Flowers, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2005. Simulation of Vatnajökull ice cap dynamics. J. Geophys. Res., 110, F03009, doi:10.1029/2004JF000262. [PDF (3.91 MB)]

Fleming, S. W., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2005. Attenuation of high-frequency interannual streamflow variability by watershed glacial cover. ASCE J. Hydraul. Eng., 131, 615-618. [PDF (153 KB)]

Flowers, G. E., S. J. Marshall, H. Björnsson, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2005. Sensitivity of Vatnajökull ice cap hydrology and dynamics to climate warming of the next 2 centuries. J. Geophys. Res., 110, F02011, doi:10.1029/2004JF000200. [PDF (1.40 MB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., D. W. Leverington, J. T. Teller, A. S. Dyke, and S. J. Marshall. 2005. Fresh arguments against the Shaw megaflood hypothesis. Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 1533-1541. [PDF (374 KB)]

Clarke, G. K. C. 2005. Subglacial processes. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 33, 247-276. [PDF (637 KB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., D.W. Leverington, J. T. Teller, and A. S. Dyke. 2004. Paleohydraulics of the last outburst flood from glacial Lake Agassiz and the 8,200 BP cold event. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 389-407. [PDF (1.00 MB)]

Tikku, A. A., R. E. Bell, M. Studinger, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2004. Ice flow over Lake Vostok, East Antarctica inferred by structure tracking. Earth Planet. Sci. Lettr., 227, 249-261.

Clarke, G. K. C., N. Lhomme, and S. J. Marshall. 2005. Tracer transport in the Greenland Ice Sheet: three-dimensional isotopic stratigraphy. Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 155-171. [PDF (1.59 MB)]

Lhomme, N., G. K. C. Clarke, and S. J. Marshall. 2005. Tracer transport in the Greenland Ice Sheet: constraints on ice cores and glacial history. Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 173-194. [PDF (862 KB)]

Flowers, G. E., H. Björnsson, F. Pálsson, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2004. A coupled sheet–conduit mechanism for jökulhlaup propagation. Geophys. Res. Lettr., 31, L05401, doi:10.1029/2003GL019088. [PDF (152 KB)]

Herzfeld, U. C., G. K. C. Clarke, H. Mayer, and R. Grave. 2004. Derivation of deformation characteristics in fast-moving glaciers. Comp. Geosci., 30, 291-302.

Hildes, D. H. D., G. K. C. Clarke, G. E. Flowers, and S. J. Marshall. 2004. Subglacial erosion and englacial sediment transport modelled for North American ice sheets. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 409-430. [PDF (2.42 MB)]

Mangerud, J., M. Jakobsson, H. Alexanderson, V. Astakhov, G. K. C. Clarke, M. Henriksen, C. Hjort, G. Krinner, J.-P. Lunkka, P. Möller, A. Murray, O. Nikolskaya, M. Saarnisto, and J. I. Svendsen. 2004. Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of Northern Eurasia during the last glaciation. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 1313-1332.

Clarke, G. K. C., D. W. Leverington, J. T. Teller, and A. S. Dyke. 2003. Superlakes, megafloods, and abrupt climate change. Science, 301, 922-923. [PDF (388 KB)]

Clarke, G. K. C. 2003. Hydraulics of subglacial outburst floods: new insights from the Spring-Hutter formulation. J. Glaciol., 49(165), 299-313. [PDF (6.66 MB) low-res scan]

Fleming, S. J., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2003. Glacial control of water resource and related environmental responses to climate warming: empirical analysis using historical streamflow data from northwestern Canada. Can. Water Res. J., 28(1), 69-86.

Flowers, G. E., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2002. A multi-component coupled model of glacier hydrology: 1. Theory and synthetic examples. J. Geophys. Res., 107(B11), 2287, doi:10.1029/2001JB001122. [PDF (934 KB)]

Flowers, G. E., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2002. A multi-component coupled model of glacier hydrology: 2. Application to Trapridge Glacier, Yukon, Canada. J. Geophys. Res., 107(B11), 2288, doi:10.1029/2001JB001124. [PDF (1.68 MB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., and S. J. Marshall. 2002. Isotopic balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Modelled concentrations of water isotopes from 30,000 BP to present. Quat. Sci. Rev., 21(1-3), 419-430. [PDF (862 KB)]

Clarke, G. K. C., and G. Holdsworth. 2002. Glaciers of the Coast Mountains, Canada. In R. S. William and J. G. Ferrigno (eds.) Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world. North America. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-J, J291-J300.

Clarke, G. K. C., and G. Holdsworth. 2002. Glaciers of the St. Elias Mountains, Canada. In R. S. William and J. G. Ferrigno (eds.) Satellite image atlas of glaciers. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-J, J301-J311.

Fleming, S. J., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2002. Autoregressive noise, deserialization, and trend detection and quantification in annual river discharge time series. Can. Water Res. J., 27(3), 335-354.

Oldenborger, G. A., G. K. C. Clarke, and D. H. D. Hildes. 2002. Hydrochemical coupling of a borehole–aquifer system. J. Glaciol., 48(162), 357-368.

Marshall, S. J., T. S. James, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2002. North American Ice Sheet reconstructions at the Last Glacial Maximum. Quat. Sci. Rev., 21(1-3), 175-192.

Bell, R.E., M. Studinger, A. Tikku, G. K. C. Clarke, M. M. Gutner and C. Meertens. 2002. Origin and fate of Lake Vostok water accreted to the base of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature, 416, 307-310.

Clark, P. U., S. J. Marshall, G. K. C. Clarke, S. W. Hostetler, J. M. Licciardi, and J. T. Teller. 2001. Freshwater forcing of abrupt climate change during the last glaciation. Science, 293, 283-287.

Fischer, U. H., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2001. Review of subglacial hydro-mechanical coupling: Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada. Quat. Int., 86(1), 29-45.

Stocker, T., G. K. C. Clarke, H. Le Treut, R. S. Lindzen, V. P. Meleshko, R. K. Mugara, T. N. Palmer, R. T. Pierrehumbert, P. J. Sellers, K. E. Trenberth, and J. Willebrand. 2001. Physical climate processes and feedbacks, In J. T. Houghton et al. (eds.) Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 419-470. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 881 pp.

Clarke, G. K. C., and D. I. La Prairie. 2001. Modelling iceberg drift and ice-rafted sedimentation. In: Continuum mechanics and applications in geophysics and the environment, edited by B. Straughan, R. Greve, H. Ehrentraut and Y. Wang, pp. 183-200, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Kavanaugh, J. L, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2001. Abrupt glacier motion and reorganization of basal shear stress following the establishment of a connected drainage system. J. Glaciol., 47(158), 472-480.

Yoshimori, M., A. J. Weaver, S. J. Marshall, and G. K. C. Clarke. 2001. Glacial termination: Sensitivity to orbital and CO2 forcing in a coupled climate system model. Clim. Dynam., 17, 571-588.

Flowers, G. E., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2000. An integrated modelling approach to understanding subglacial hydraulic release events. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 222-228.

Kavanaugh, J. L., and G. K. C. Clarke. 2000. Evidence for extreme pressure pulses in the subglacial water system. J. Glaciol., 46(153), 206-212.

Marshall, S. J., L. Tarasov, G. K. C. Clarke, and W. R. Peltier. 2000. Glaciological reconstruction of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Physical processes and modelling challenges. Can. J. Earth Sci., 37(5), 769-793.

Clarke, G. K. C., S. J. Marshall, C. Hillaire-Marcel, G. Bilodeau, and C. Veiga-Pires.1999. A glaciological perspective on Heinrich events. In Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales, edited by P. U. Clark, R. S. Webb, and L. D. Keigwin, American Geophysical Union, Monograph 112, 243-262.

Marshall, S. J., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1999. Modeling North American freshwater runoff and proglacial lake history through the last glacial cycle. Quat. Res., 52(3), 300-315. [PDF (538 KB)]

Blake, E. W., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1999. Subglacial electrical phenomena. J. Geophys. Res., 104(B4), 7481-7495.

Flowers, G. E., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1999. Surface and bed topography of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada: digital elevation models and derived hydraulic geometry. J. Glaciol., 45(149), 165-174.

Marshall, S. J., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1999. Ice sheet inception: subgrid hypsometry parameterization of mass balance in an ice sheet model. Clim. Dynam., 15, 533-550.

Fischer, U. H., G. K. C. Clarke, and H. Blatter. 1999. Evidence for temporally varying “sticky spots” at the base of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada. J. Glaciol., 45(150), 352-360.

Blatter, H., G. K. C. Clarke, and J. Colinge. 1998. Stress and velocity fields in glaciers: Part II. Sliding and basal stress distribution. J. Glaciol., 44(148), 457-466.

Clarke, D. B., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1998. Layered granodiorites at Chebucto Head, South Mountain batholith, Nova Scotia. Structural Geology, 20(9/10), 1305-1324.

Selected Nostalgia Items

Clarke, G. K. C. 1976. Thermal regulation of glacier surging. J. Glaciol., 16(74), 231-250.

Clarke, G. K. C., U. Nitsan, and W. S. B. Paterson. 1977. Strain heating and creep instability in glaciers and ice sheets. Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 15(2), 235-247.

Clarke, G. K. C. 1982. The 1978 outburst flood from “Hazard Lake,” Yukon Territory and the problem of flood magnitude prediction. J. Glaciol., 28(98), 3-21.

Clarke, G. K. C., S. G. Collins, and D. E. Thompson. 1984. Flow, thermal structure and subglacial conditions of a surge-type glacier. Can. J. Earth Sci., 21(2), 232-240.

Clarke, G. K. C. 1986. Professor Mathews, outburst floods, and other glaciological disasters. Can. J. Earth Sci., 23(6), 859-868.

Clarke, G. K. C., J. Schmok, C. S. L. Ommanney, and S. G. Collins. 1986. Characteristics of surge-type glaciers. J. Geophys. Res., 91(B7), 7165-7180.

Clarke, G. K. C. 1987. Subglacial till: a physical framework for its properties and processes. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B9), 9023-9036.

Clarke, G. K. C. 1987. Fast glacier flow: ice streams, surging and tidewater glaciers. J. Geophys. Res., 92(B9), 8835-8841.

Narod, B. B., G. K. C. Clarke, B. T., and B. T. Prager. 1988. Airborne UHF radar sounding of glaciers and ice shelves, northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci., 25(1), 95-105.

Clarke, G. K. C., G. M. Cross, and C. S. Benson. 1989. Radar imaging of glaciovolcanic stratigraphy, Mt. Wrangell caldera, Alaska: interpretation model and results. J. Geophys. Res., 94(B6), 7237-7249.

Clarke, G. K. C., and E. D. Waddington. 1991. A three-dimensional theory of wind pumping. J. Glaciol., 37(125), 89-96.

Clarke, G. K. C., and E. W. Blake. 1991. Geometric and thermal evolution of a surge-type glacier in its quiescent state: Trapridge Glacier 1969–89. J. Glaciol., 37(125), 158-169.

Clarke, G. K. C. 1991. Length, width and slope influences on glacier surging. J. Glaciol., 37(126), 236-246.

Stone, D. B., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1993. Estimation of subglacial hydraulic properties from induced changes in basal water pressure: a theoretical framework for borehole response tests. J. Glaciol., 39(132), 327-340.

Fischer, U. H., and G. K. C. Clarke. 1994. Ploughing of subglacial sediment. J. Glaciol., 40(134), 97-106.