[SFU]: Glaciology Research Group

Young, E.M., G.E. Flowers, E. Berthier & R. Latto. 2020. An imbalancing act: The delayed dynamic response of the Kaskawulsh Glacier to sustained mass loss, Journal of Glaciology, doi:10.1017/jog.2020.107. [1 pg summary]
Bigelow, D.G., G.E. Flowers, C.G. Schoof, L.D.B. Mingo, E.M. Young, B.C. Connal. 2020. The Role of Englacial Hydrology in the Filling and Drainage of an Ice-Dammed Lake, Kaskawulsh Glacier, Yukon, Canada, Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, doi:10.1029/2019JF005110, 1-21. [1 pg summary]
Crompton, J.W., G.E. Flowers, B. Dyck. 2020. Characterization of glacial silt and clay using automated mineralogy. Annals of Glaciology, 60(80), doi:10.1017/aog.2019.45, 49-65. [1 pg summary]
Mingo, L., G.E. Flowers, A.J. Crawford, D. Mueller, D.G. Bigelow. 2020. A stationary impulse-radar system for autonomous deployment in cold and temperate environments. Annals of Glaciology, doi:10.1017/aog.2020.2, 1-9. [1 pg summary]
Schroeder, D., R. Bingham, D. Blankenship, K. Christianson, O. Eisen, G.E. Flowers, N.B. Karlsson, M.R. Koutnik, J.D. Paden, M. Siegert. 2020. Five decades of radioglaciology. Annals of Glaciology, doi:10.1017/aog.2020.11, 1-13.
Williamson, S.N., C. Zdanowicz, F.S. Anslow, G.K.C. Clarke, L. Copland, R.K. Danby, G.E. Flowers, G. Holdsworth, A.H. Jarosch, D.S. Hik. 2020. Amplified warming in the St. Elias Mountains, Alaska/Yukon, is regulated by the upper Troposphere, Journal of Climate, 33, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0405.1, 3253–3269.

Anderson, L.S., Á. Geirsdóttir, G.E. Flowers, A.D. Wickert, G. Aðalgeirsdóttir, Th. Thorsteinsson. 2019. Controls on the lifespans of Icelandic ice caps, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 527, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115780, 115780.
Pulwicki, A., G.E. Flowers, D. Bingham. 2019. Pursuit of optimal design for winter-balance surveys of valley-glacier ablation areas, Frontiers in Earth Science, doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00199, 7, 199. [1 pg summary]
Beaud, F., G.E. Flowers, J.G. Venditti. 2018. Modeling sediment transport in ice-walled subglacial channels and its implications for esker formation and proglacial sediment yields. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 123, doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004779, 3206-3227.
Pulwicki, A., G.E. Flowers, V. Radic, D. Bingham. 2018. Estimating winter balance and its uncertainty from direct measurements of snow depth and density on alpine glaciers, Journal of Glaciology, 64(247), doi:10.1017/jog.2018.68, 781-795. [1 pg summary]
Flowers, G.E. 2018. Hydrology and the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Solicited Comment), Nature Communications, 9(1), 10.1038/s41467-018-05002-0, 2729.
Anderson, L.S., G.E. Flowers, A.H. Jarosch, G. Aðalgeirsdóttir, Á. Geirsdóttir, G.H. Miller, D.J. Harning, Th. Thorsteinsson, E. Magnússon, F. Pálsson, T. Jóhannesson. 2018. Holocene glacier and climate variations in Vestfirðir, Iceland, from the modeling of Drangajökull ice cap, Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.024, 39-56.
Crompton, J.W., G.E. Flowers, D. Stead. 2018. Bedrock fracture characteristics as a possible control on the distribution of surge-type glaciers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 123, doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004505, 853-873. [1 pg summary]
Beaud, F., J.G. Venditti, G.E. Flowers, M. Koppes. 2018. Excavation of subglacial bedrock channels by seasonal meltwater flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43, doi: 10.1002/esp.4367, 1960-1972.
Aso, N., V. Tsai, C. Schoof, G. Flowers, A. Whiteford, C. Rada. 2017. Seismologically observed spatio-temporal drainage activity at moulins. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014578, 9095-9108.
Pimentel, S., G.E. Flowers, M.J. Sharp, B. Danielson, L. Copland, W. Van Wychen, A. Duncan, J.L. Kavanaugh. 2017. Modelling seasonal dynamics of a major marine-terminating Arctic glacier. Annals of Glaciology, 58(74), doi:10.1017/aog.2017.23, 118-130.
Gilbert, A., G.E. Flowers, G.H. Miller, K. Refsnider, N.E. Young, V. Radic. 2017. The projected demise of Barnes Ice Cap: evidence of an unusually warm 21st century Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072394, 2810-2816.
Pratola, M.T., O. Harari, D. Bingham, J. Parkhouse, G.E. Flowers. 2017. Design on non-convex regions: optimal experiments for spatial process prediction , Technometrics, 59(1), doi:10.1080/00401706.2015.1115674, 36-47.
King, L., Hassan, M., Yang, K., Flowers, G. 2016. Flow routing for delineating supraglacial meltwater channel networks. Remote Sensing, 8(12), doi:10.3390/rs8120988, 988.
Gilbert, A., Flowers, G.E., Miller, G.H., Rabus, B.T., Van Wychen, W., Gardner, A.S., Copland, L. 2016. Sensitivity of Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada, to climate state and internal dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JF003839, 1516-1539.
Flowers, G.E., A.H. Jarosch, P.T.A.P. Belliveau, L.A. Fuhrman. 2016. Short-term velocity variations and sliding sensitivity of a slowly surging glacier. Annals of Glaciology, 57(72), doi:10.1017/aog.2016.7, 71-83.
Crompton, J.W. and G.E. Flowers. 2016. Correlations of suspended sediment size with bedrock lithology and glacier dynamics. Annals of Glaciology, 57(72), doi:10.1017/aog.2016.6, 142-150.
Beaud, F.B., G.E. Flowers, J.G Venditti. 2016. Efficacy of bedrock erosion by subglacial water flow. Earth Surface Dynamics, 4, doi:10.5194/esurf-4-125-2016, 125-145.
Crompton, J.W., G.E. Flowers, D. Kirste, B. Hagedorn, M.J. Sharp, 2015. Clay mineral precipitation and low silica in glacier meltwaters explored through reaction path modelling. Journal of Glaciology, 61(230), doi:10.3189/2015JoG15J051, 1061-1078.
Flowers, G.E. 2015. Modelling water flow under glaciers and ice sheets. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 471: 20140907, doi:10.1098/rspa.2014.0907.

Beaud, F.B., G.E. Flowers, S. Pimentel. 2014. Seasonal-scale abrasion and quarrying patterns from a two-dimensional ice-flow model coupled to distributed and channelized subglacial drainage. Geomorphology, 219, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.036, 176-191.
Schoof, C.G., C.A. Rada, N.J. Wilson, G.E. Flowers, M. Haseloff. 2014. Oscillatory subglacial drainage in the absence of surface melt. The Cryosphere, 8, do:10.5194/tc-8-959-2014, 959-976.
Wheler, B.A., MacDougall, A.H., Flowers, G.E., Petersen, E.I., Whitfield, P.H., Kohfeld, K.E. 2014. Effects of temperature forcing provenance and lapse rate on the performance of an empirical glacier-melt model. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 46(2), do:10.1657/1938-4246-46.2.379, 379-393.
Wilson, N.J., G.E. Flowers, L. Mingo. 2014. Mapping and interpretation of bed reflection power from a surge-type polythermal glacier. Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), doi:10.3189/2014AoG67A101, 1-8.
Williamson, S.N., D.S. Hik, J.A. Gamon, J.L. Kavanaugh, G.E. Flowers. 2014. Contemporary glacier processes and global change: recent observations from the Kaskawulsh Glacier and Donjek Range, St. Elias Mountains. Arctic, (KLRS 50th Anniversary Issue), 1-20, doi.org/10.14430/arctic4356.
Werder, M.A., I. Hewitt, C.G. Schoof, G.E. Flowers. 2013. Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in two dimensions. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20146, 2140-2158.
Wilson, N.J., G.E. Flowers, L. Mingo. 2013. Comparison of thermal structure and evolution between neighboring subarctic glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20096, 1443-1459.
Joughin, I., S.B. Das, G.E. Flowers, M.D. Behn, R.B. Alley, M.A. King, B.E. Smith, J. Bamber, M.R. van den Broeke, J.H. van Angelen. 2013. Influence of supraglacial lakes and ice-sheet geometry on seasonal ice-flow variability. The Cryosphere, 7, doi:10.5194/tc-7-1185-2013, 1185-1192.
Wilson, N.J. and G.E. Flowers. 2013. Environmental controls on the thermal structure of alpine glaciers. The Cryosphere, 7, doi:10.5194/tc-7-167-2013, 167-182.
MacDougall, A.H., B.A. Wheler and G.E. Flowers. 2011. A preliminary assessment of glacier melt-model parameter sensitivity and transferability in a dry subarctic environment. The Cryosphere, 5, doi: 10.5194/tc-5-1011-2011, 1011-1028.
Flowers, G.E., N. Roux, S. Pimentel, C. Schoof. 2011. Present dynamics and future prognosis of a slowly surging glacier. The Cryosphere, 5, doi:10.5194/tc-5-299-2011, 299-313.
MacDougall, A.H. and G.E. Flowers. 2011. Spatial and temporal transferability of a distributed energy-balance glacier melt-model. Journal of Climate, 24(5), doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3821.1, 1480-1498.
Wheler, B.A. and G.E. Flowers. 2011. Glacier subsurface heat-flux characterizations for energy balance modelling in the Donjek Range, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada. Journal of Glaciology 57(201), do:10.3189/002214311795306709, 121-133.
Pimentel, S. and G.E. Flowers. 2011. A numerical study of hydrologically driven glacier dynamics and subglacial flooding. Proceedings of the Royal Society A., 467, doi:10.1098/rspa.2010.0211, 537-558.
Flowers, G.E. 2010. Glacier hydromechanics: early insights and the lasting legacy of three works by Iken and colleagues. J. Glaciol., 56(200), doi:10.3189/002214311796406103, 1069-1078.
Pimentel, S., G.E. Flowers and C.G. Schoof. 2010. A hydrologically coupled higher-order flow-band model of ice dynamics with a Coulomb friction sliding law. Journal of Geophysical Research 115, doi:10.1029/2009JF001621, F04023.
Mingo, L. and G.E. Flowers. 2010. Instruments and Methods: An integrated lightweight ice-penetrating radar system. Journal of Glaciology, 56(198), do:10.3189/002214310793146179, 709-714.

De Paoli, L. and G.E. Flowers. 2009. Dynamics of a small surge-type glacier investigated using one-dimensional geophysical inversion. Journal of Glaciology, 55(194), doi:10.3189/002214309790794850, 1101-1112.
Boon, S., G.E. Flowers and D.S. Munro. 2009. Canadian glacier hydrology. Can. Water Res. J., 22, doi:10.4296/cwrj3402195, 3903-3918.

Flowers, G.E. 2008. Subglacial modulation of the hydrograph from glacierized basins. Hydrol. Proc., 22, doi:10.1002/hyp.7095, 3903-3918.
Flowers, G.E., H. Björnsson, Á. Geirsdóttir, G.H. Miller, J.L. Black and G.K.C. Clarke. 2008. Holocene climate conditions and glacier fluctuation in central Iceland from physical modelling and empirical evidence. Quat. Sci. Rev., 27, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.12.004, 797-813.
Flowers, G.E., H. Björnsson, Á. Geirsdóttir, G.H. Miller and G.K.C. Clarke. 2007. Glacier fluctuation and inferred climatology of Langjökull ice cap through the Little Ice Age. Quat. Sci. Rev., 22, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.016, 2337-2353.
Huntington, H.P., M. Boyle, G.E. Flowers, J. Weatherly, L. Hamilton, L. Hinzman, C. Gerlach, R. Zulueta, C. Nicolson and J. Overpeck. 2007. The influence of human activity in the Arctic on climate and climate impacts. Climatic Change, 82, doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9162-y.
Fischer, U.H., A. Braun, A. Bauder and G.E. Flowers. 2005. Changes in geometry and subglacial drainage derived form digital elevation models: Unteraargletscher, Switzerland, 1927-97. Ann. Glaciol., 40, doi:10.3189/172756405781813528, 20-24.
Marshall, S.J., H. Björnsson, G.E. Flowers and G.K.C. Clarke. 2005. Simulation of Vatnajökull ice cap dynamics. J. Geophys. Rev., 110, doi:10.1029/2004JF000262, F03009.
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 over the next two centuries. J. Geophys. Rev., 110, doi:10.1029/2004JF000200, F02011.

Flowers, G.E., H. Björnsson, F. Pálsson and G.K.C. Clarke. 2004. A coupled sheet-conduit mechanism for jökulhlaup propagation. Geophysical Research Letters, 31 L05401, doi:10.1029/2003GL019088.
Hildes, D.H.D., G.K.C. Clarke, G.E. Flowers and S.J. Marshall. 2004. Modelling subglacial erosion and englacial sediment transport of the North American ice sheets. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06.005, 409-430.
Flowers, G.E., H. Björnsson and F. Pálsson. 2003. New insights into the subglacial and periglacial hydrology of Vatnajökull, Iceland, from a distributed physical model. J. Glaciol., 49(165), doi:10.3189/172756503781830827, 257-270.
Björnsson, H., F. Pálsson, O. Sigurdsson and G.E. Flowers. 2003 Surges of glaciers in Iceland. Ann. Glaciol., 36, doi:10.3189/172756403781816365, 82-90.
Flowers, G.E. and G.K.C. Clarke. 2002. A multicomponent coupled model of glacier hydrology, 1, Theory and synthetic examples. J. Geophys. Res., 107(B11), doi:10.1029/2001JB001122, 2287.
Flowers, G.E. and G.K.C. Clarke. 2002. A multicomponent coupled model of glacier hydrology, 2, Application to Trapridge Glacier, Yukon, Canada. J. Geophys. Res., 107(B11), doi:10.1029/2001JB001124, 2288.
Flowers, G.E. and G.K.C. Clarke. 2000. An integrated modelling approach to understanding subglacial hydraulic release events. Ann. Glaciol., 31, doi:10.3189/172756400781820471, 222-228.

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. Journal of Glaciology, 45(149), doi:10.1017/S0022143000003142, 165-174
Wieman, C.E., G.E. Flowers and S.L. Gilbert. 1995. Inexpensive laser cooling and trapping experiment for undergraduate laboratories. American Journal of Physics, 63(4),do:10.1119/1.18072, 317-330.

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