Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves
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
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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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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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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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Journal of Glaciology, 2023 Estimates of ice shelf mass loss are typically based on surface height measurements, assuming hydrostatic equilibrium and estimated firn thickness.
Allison M. Chartrand, I. Howat
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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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Brief communication: widespread potential for seawater infiltration on Antarctic ice shelves [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Antarctica's future contribution to sea level change depends on the fate of its fringing ice shelves. One factor which may affect the rate of iceberg calving from ice shelves is the presence of liquid water, including the percolation of seawater into ...
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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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Brief communication: A submarine wall protecting the Amundsen Sea intensifies melting of neighboring ice shelves [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Disintegration of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea, in front of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, has the potential to cause sea level rise by inducing an acceleration of ice discharge from upstream grounded ice. Moore et al.
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