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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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 ...
S. Cook +5 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: 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.
Ö. Gürses +4 more
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Can unconfined ice shelves provide buttressing via hoop stresses?
Journal of Glaciology, 2020 The stress balance within an ice shelf is key to the resistance, or buttressing, it can provide and in part controls the rate of ice discharge from the upstream ice sheet. Unconfined ice shelves are widely assumed to provide no buttressing.
Martin G. Wearing +2 more
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New gravity-derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson, and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Ice shelves play a critical role in the long-term stability of ice sheets through their buttressing effect. The underlying bathymetry and cavity thickness are key inputs for modelling future ice sheet evolution.
T. A. Jordan +8 more
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Enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice shelves inferred from an anisotropic ice-flow model [PDF]
, 2010 Polar ice is known to be one of the most anisotropic natural materials. For a given fabric the polycrystal viscous response is strongly dependent on the actual state of stress and strain rate.
Olivier Gagliardini +17 more
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Calving Fronts of Antarctica: Mapping and Classification
Remote Sensing, 2013 Antarctica is surrounded by a variety of large, medium and small sized ice shelves, glacier tongues and coastal areas without offshore floating ice masses. We used the mosaic of the Radarsat-1 Antarctica Mapping Project (RAMP) Antarctic Mapping Mission 1
Christine Wesche +2 more
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The Creep of Ice Shelves Theory [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 1973 AbstractBudd’s expressions for strain-rate gradient along the centre line of a bounded ice shelf are shown to be applicable only to ice shelves with almost constant thickness and very small longitudinal strain-rates. A general expression is derived for creep in an ice shelf where the sole restriction is that of zero shear stresses in vertical planes ...
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Predicting the steady-state isochronal stratigraphy of ice shelves using observations and modeling [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic perimeter moderate ice discharge towards the ocean through buttressing. Ice-shelf evolution and integrity depend on the local surface accumulation, basal melting and on the spatially variable ice-shelf viscosity ...
V. Višnjević +7 more
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