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Change in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding how regime shifts in iceberg calving behavior affect ice shelf stability remains a challenge for numerical models. This is an important question as we consider the fate of the ice shelves that currently buttress the Antarctic Ice Sheet and ...
James D. Kirkham +15 more
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Calving glaciers and ice shelves [PDF]
Advances in Physics: X, 2018 Calving, or the release of icebergs from glaciers and floating ice shelves, is an important process transferring mass into the world’s oceans. Calving glaciers and ice sheets make a large contribution to sea-level rise, but large uncertainty remains about future ice sheet response to alternative carbon scenarios.
Douglas I. Benn, Jan A. Åström
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The suppression of Antarctic bottom water formation by melting ice shelves in Prydz Bay. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2016 A fourth production region for the globally important Antarctic bottom water has been attributed to dense shelf water formation in the Cape Darnley Polynya, adjoining Prydz Bay in East Antarctica.
Williams GD +11 more
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Stability of Ice Shelves and Ice Cliffs in a Changing Climate
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesThe largest uncertainty in future sea-level rise is loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Ice shelves, freely floating platforms of ice that fringe the ice sheets, play a crucial role in restraining discharge of grounded ice into the ocean through buttressing. However, since the 1990s, several ice shelves have thinned, retreated, and
Bassis, Jeremy N. +9 more
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The Legal Status of Ice Shelves and Ice Islands in the Arctic [PDF]
Les Cahiers de droit, 1969 Donat Pharand
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Change in Antarctic ice shelf area from 2009 to 2019 [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Antarctic ice shelves provide buttressing support to the ice sheet, stabilising the flow of grounded ice and its contribution to global sea levels. Over the past 50 years, satellite observations have shown ice shelves collapse, thin, and retreat; however,
J. R. Andreasen +3 more
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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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Ice-shelf ocean boundary layer dynamics from large-eddy simulations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Small-scale turbulent flow below ice shelves is regionally isolated and difficult to measure and simulate. Yet these small-scale processes, which regulate heat and salt transfer between the ocean and ice shelves, can affect sea-level rise by altering ...
C. B. Begeman +2 more
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The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Ice shelf collapse reduces buttressing and enables grounded glaciers to contribute more rapidly to sea-level rise in a warming climate. The abrupt collapses of the Larsen A (1995) and B (2002) ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) occurred, at ...
M. K. Laffin +4 more
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Variable temperature thresholds of melt pond formation on Antarctic ice shelves
Nature Climate Change, 2023 Melt ponding is an important process for the stability of ice shelves. Here the authors estimate the temperature thresholds at which melt ponding emerges over Antarctic ice shelves and find that cold and dry ice shelves are more vulnerable to melt ...
J. M. van Wessem +3 more
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