As for ur friction not causing melt....oi vey the position statement I gave u explored why the radiant thermal heat from the earth could not account for the melt underneath greenland’s field and that the like denominator was friction.
As for ur friction not causing melt....oi vey the position statement I gave u explored why the radiant thermal heat from the earth could not account for the melt underneath greenland’s field and that the like denominator was friction. As I stated before, your linked abstract examines the function of an enhanced geothermal gradient to account for the increased flow - from the abstract
Within the idealized Jakobshavn Isbra with walls with 45°-slopes extending 1500 m to the valley floor that is 3 km wide, the geothermal flux is about 150% of the background geothermal heat flux.
My, didn't I say that they were finding that they had to model a higher geothermal gradient than normal . . . .