Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf

Ice shelves play a key role in the dynamics of marine ice sheets by buttressing grounded ice and limiting rates of ice flux to the oceans. In response to recent climatic and oceanic change, ice shelves fringing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have begun to fragment and retreat, with major implic...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	The cryosphere Vol. 16; no. 6; pp. 2545 - 2564
Main Authors:	Benn, Douglas I., Luckman, Adrian, Åström, Jan A., Crawford, Anna J., Cornford, Stephen L., Bevan, Suzanne L., Zwinger, Thomas, Gladstone, Rupert, Alley, Karen, Pettit, Erin, Bassis, Jeremy
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 27.06.2022 Copernicus Publications
Subjects:	Ablation Antarctic ice sheet Archives & records Buttresses Climate change Damage accumulation Discrete element method Failure Fragmentation Glaciation Glaciers Hydraulic fracturing Ice Ice calving Ice sheet models Ice sheets Ice shelves Land ice Oceans Particle size Positive feedback Shear strength Shear zone Sheet modelling Simulation Upstream Velocity Pine Island Glacier
ISSN:	1994-0424, 1994-0416, 1994-0424, 1994-0416
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Be the first to leave a comment!