Abstract
Abstract Abstract. Ice-shelf thickness and velocity anomalies resulting from ice-stream discharge fluctuations are calculated for an ideal ice shelf fed by a single ice stream and confined within a rectangular coastal geometry. Ice-shelf response to periodic forcing is found to be linear (thickness and velocity anomalies oscillate at the forcing frequency, and response scales with the forcing). Thickness anomalies are trapped near the ice-stream outlet and propagate down-stream at a slow, advective time-scale. Velocity anomalies tend to be widespread and propagate instantaneously throughout the ice-shelf environment. Ice-shelf response is sensitive to ice-stream fluctuation time-scale in the manner of a low-pass filter; longer forcing time-scales produce more widespread ice-shelf response. If ice-stream velocity and thickness fluctuations are in phase, thickness-anomaly maxima typically occur down-stream of the ice-stream outlet. This effect may determine where ice rumples and rises are likely to form in response to stochastic ice-stream variability.
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