Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Antarctica's floating ice shelves modulate discharge of grounded ice into the ocean by providing a backstress. Ice shelf thinning and grounding line retreat have reduced this backstress, driving rapid drawdown of key unstable areas of the Antarctic Ice ...
F. S. Paolo +6 more
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Shear-margin melting causes stronger transient ice discharge than ice-stream melting in idealized simulations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Basal ice-shelf melting is the key driver of Antarctica's increasing sea-level contribution. In diminishing the buttressing force of the ice shelves that fringe the ice sheet, the melting increases the ice discharge into the ocean.
J. Feldmann +7 more
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Detection of Surface Crevasses over Antarctic Ice Shelves Using SAR Imagery and Deep Learning Method
Remote Sensing, 2022 Crevasses are formed by glacier movement and the stresses within glacier ice. Knowledge of the crevasses’ distribution is critical for understanding the glacier and ice shelf stability. In this study, we propose an automated crevasse extraction framework
Jingjing Zhao +4 more
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MOSAICKING VERY-HIGH-RESOLUTION HELICOPTER-BORNE IMAGES ACQUIRED OVER DRIFTING ARCTIC SEA ICE USING COTS SENSORS [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 In order to observe and record conditions of the sea ice efficiently and specifically during in-situ investigation with the support of icebreaker research vessel (IBRV), the very-high-resolution (VHR) imaging systems have been used in recent past.
C. U. Hyun, H. C. Kim
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Can rifts alter ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves? [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Land ice discharge from the Antarctic continent into the ocean is restrained by ice shelves, floating extensions of grounded ice that buttress the glacier outflow.
M. Poinelli +6 more
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The distribution and evolution of surface fractures on pan-Antarctic ice shelves
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 Surface fractures have a great impact on ice shelf stability in Antarctica and can be considered precursors of ice shelf calving. However, our understanding of the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of surface fractures on the Antarctic ice ...
Ao Pang +5 more
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Abatement of Ocean-Wave Impact by Crevasses in an Ice Shelf
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Forced ice-shelf oscillations modeling was undertaken employing a full 3D finite-difference model of an elastic ice shelf that was coupled to a treatment of under-shelf seawater flux.
Yuri V. Konovalov
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Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean: dynamical regimes of a basin-covering kilometre-thick ice shelf [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 Recent geological and geophysical data suggest that a 1 km thick ice shelf extended over the glacial Arctic Ocean during Marine Isotope Stage 6, about 140 000 years ago.
J. Nilsson +10 more
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Time-Dependent Modelling of the Wave-Induced Vibration of Ice Shelves
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 This work presents an investigation of ice shelf vibration using a model based on shallow water approximation. The study focused on the effect of changes in the draft on the vibration of the ice shelf and presents both time-domain and frequency-domain ...
Samuel McNeil, Michael H. Meylan
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Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Recent observations indicate that two cryospheric components, namely the Antarctic sea ice and ice shelf over the Southern Ocean, have been changing over the decades. Here we analyze results from an ocean–sea ice–ice shelf model to examine variability in
Kazuya Kusahara
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