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Wave erosion of ice cliffs: melt rate due to reflection of non-breaking surface waves
Anya Wolterman, Till J. W. Wagner, Lucas K. Zoet, Nimish Pujara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01589

Wave erosion of ice cliffs: melt rate due to reflection of non-breaking surface waves
Wave erosion of ice cliffs is one of the main mechanisms for waterline ice melt for icebergs, glacier fronts, and ice-shelf fronts. Despite its importance, this process is fundamentally not well understood or extensively tested in controlled experiments, and therefore coarsely parameterized in geophysical and climate models. In this study, we examine the melting of a vertical ice wall caused by surface waves using both theory and laboratory experiments, with an emphasis on the flow-induced heat…