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Greenland Ice Shelves and Ice Tongues

2017
This chapter focuses on a review of the glaciers on north and northeast Greenland that terminate in fiords with long glacier tongues and floating, ice-shelf-like margins. There is some debate as to whether these glacier tongues can be classified as a traditional ice shelf, so the relevant literature and physical properties are reviewed.
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Analytical Models of Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves

2020
Simple mathematical models for ice sheets and ice shelves are described which provide important insights into their dynamics. The models studied can be solved analytically to give equilibrium surface profiles and velocity distributions. Consideration is given to the feedback between surface elevation and mass balance.
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Ice sheet margins and ice shelves

1984
The effect of climate warming on the size of ice sheet margins in polar regions is considered. Particular attention is given to the possibility of a rapid response to warming on the order of tens to hundreds of years. It is found that the early response of the polar regions to climate warming would be an increase in the area of summer melt on the ice ...
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Arctic Ice Shelves: An Introduction

2017
Ice shelves are relatively thick ice masses that are afloat but attached to coastal land rather than adrift. They form by the seaward extension of glaciers or ice sheets or by build up of multiyear landfast sea ice. They thicken further by surface accumulation of snow and superimposed ice and by accretion of ice from water beneath.
Julian A. Dowdeswell, Martin O. Jeffries
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The health of Antarctic ice shelves

Nature Climate Change, 2017
The thinning of floating ice shelves around Antarctica enhances upstream ice flow, contributing to sea-level rise. Ice-shelf thinning is now shown to influence glacial movement over much larger distances than previously thought.
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How ice shelves melt

Science, 2014
Warming of the water that flows under Antarctic ice shelves is key to their melting [Also see Report by Schmidtko et al. ]
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Interaction of Ice Shelves with the Ocean

2020
Ice shelves are the floating extensions of ice sheets into the ocean. Melting under ice shelves contributes to their mass balance and affects their geometry, with implications for ice-shelf evolution and integrity. This chapter examines the relevant ice-ocean interactions, focussing on mathematical descriptions of the plume dynamics that control the ...
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Damage detection on antarctic ice shelves using the normalised radon transform

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023
Maaike Izeboud, Stef Lhermitte
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Surface Melt and Runoff on Antarctic Ice Shelves at 1.5°C, 2°C, and 4°C of Future Warming

Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
Ella Gilbert, Christoph Kittel
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Ice shelves

Karen E. Alley, Christian T. Wild
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