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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Ocean-driven thinning enhances iceberg calving and retreat of Antarctic ice shelves [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 John C Moore, Xiao Cheng
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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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Sea ice-free corridors for large swell to reach Antarctic ice shelves
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Sea ice can attenuate Southern Ocean swell before it reaches Antarctic ice shelves and imposes flexural stresses, which promote calving of outer ice-shelf margins and influence ice shelf stability.
N J Teder +3 more
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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 Ice shelves play an essential role in the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet. The surface meltwater is important, as it can irreversibly weaken ice shelves by exerting additional hydrostatic pressure.
Qi Zhu +6 more
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A 15-year circum-Antarctic iceberg calving dataset derived from continuous satellite observations [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2021 Iceberg calving is the main process that facilitates the dynamic mass loss of ice sheets into the ocean, which accounts for approximately half of the mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet.
M. Qi +14 more
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Creep deformation and buttressing capacity of damaged ice shelves: theory and application to Larsen C ice shelf [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2013 Around the perimeter of Antarctica, much of the ice sheet discharges to the ocean through floating ice shelves. The buttressing provided by ice shelves is critical for modulating the flux of ice into the ocean, and the presently observed thinning of
C. P. Borstad +3 more
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Eddy and tidal driven basal melting of the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The mass loss from the neighboring Totten and Moscow University ice shelves is accelerating and may raise global sea levels in coming centuries. Totten Glacier is mostly based on bedrock below sea level, and so is vulnerable to warm water intrusion ...
Yuwei Xia +8 more
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On the Multiscale Oceanic Heat Transports Toward the Bases of the Antarctic Ice Shelves
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2023 The mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is important to global sea-level change. The AIS loses mass mainly through basal melting and subsequent calving of the Antarctic ice shelves.
Zhaomin Wang +7 more
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