Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell

2018/06/01 by Robert A. Massom, Theodore A. Scambos, Luke G. Bennetts +4 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · #Antarctic ice sheet #Antarctic sea ice #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Arctic ice pack #Climatology #Cryosphere #Cryospheric studies and observations #Drift ice #Fast ice #Geology #Geomorphology #Ice calving #Ice divide #Ice sheet #Ice shelf #Lead (geology) #Oceanography #Sea ice #Swell #Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0212-1

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Citations

• Foehn winds link climate‐driven warming to ice shelf evolution in Antarctica
• Pattern of retreat and disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
• Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica
• A structural glaciological analysis of the 2002 Larsen B ice-shelf collapse
• Oceanic controls on the mass balance of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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• Seasonal dynamics of Totten Ice Shelf controlled by sea ice buttressing
• Sea ice [wikipedia]