Half a century of dynamic instability following the ocean-driven break-up of Wordie Ice Shelf

Ice shelves restrain grounded ice discharge into the ocean, and their break-up contributes significantly to Antarctica’s sea level rise. Using aerial imagery from the 1960s and modern satellite data, we construct a long-term record of Wordie Ice Shelf’s disintegration and its effects on tributary gl...

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Published in:	Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 4016 - 11
Main Authors:	Dømgaard, Mads, Millan, Romain, Andersen, Jonas K., Scheuchl, Bernd, Rignot, Eric, Izeboud, Maaike, Bernat, Maud, Bjørk, Anders A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.04.2025 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	704/106/125 704/106/694/2739 Buttresses Disintegration Dynamic stability Environmental Sciences Glaciers Humanities and Social Sciences Ice Ice sheets Ice shelves Land ice multidisciplinary Ocean temperature Ocean warming Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sea level rise Surface velocity Antarctica
ISSN:	2041-1723, 2041-1723
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