Do Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Tabular Iceberg Calving?
Journal of GlaciologyThe processes governing iceberg calving from ice shelves remain poorly understood. Recent studies suggest that anomalous atmospheric moisture transport events – atmospheric rivers – can act as triggers for calving.
Claire Pettersen +2 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 Iceberg calving from all Antarctic ice shelves has never been directly measured, despite playing a crucial role in ice sheet mass balance. Rapid changes to iceberg calving naturally arise from the sporadic detachment of large tabular bergs but can also ...
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Iceberg Freshwater Transport Alleviates Future Weakening of Antarctic Bottom Water Formation
Geophysical Research LettersIntensification of calving in a warmer future climate would result in production of more Antarctic icebergs, and iceberg freshwater flux would play a more consequential role in ice‐climate interactions.
Jiawei Shi, Dawei Li
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Ocean tides trigger ice shelf rift growth and calving [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsTabular iceberg calving reduces ice-shelf extent, affecting ocean circulation and ice-sheet stability. Here we present detailed observations of a rift on the Brunt Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, from 2017-2023 and its behaviour in the lead up to calving in ...
O. J. Marsh, R. J. Arthern, J. De Rydt
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Remote Sensing, 2020 In the field of iceberg and glacier calving studies, it is important to collect comprehensive datasets of populations of icebergs. Particularly, calving of lake-terminating glaciers has been understudied.
Julian Podgórski, Michal Petlicki
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Listening to Tsunami Waves Induced by Glacier Calving
Geophysical Research LettersProcesses at the ice–ocean interface play a central role in regulating the stability of marine‐terminating glaciers and ice sheets and drive ocean freshening and mixing.
O. Glowacki, M. D. Stokes, G. B. Deane
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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.
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A Century of Variation in the Dependence of Greenland Iceberg Calving on Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance and Regional Climate Change [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2014 Grant R Bigg +2 more
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BREAK OUT OF A-76 ICEBERG AND RECENT DYNAMIC CHANGES OF ITS ENCOLSURE RIFTS IN RONNE ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Monitoring the stability of the Ronne Ice Shelf, particularly the calving event, is an integral and important part of the study of Antarctic ice sheet mass balance and sea-level rise. This paper presents the results of the analysis of the world’s largest
A. Zhao +15 more
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Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2023 Iceberg calving accounts for up to half of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), with their size distributions providing insights into glacier calving dynamics and impacting fjord environments through their melting and subsequent freshwater ...
C. J. Shiggins, J. M. Lea, S. Brough
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