Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half-Century

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Cook, A. J., Fox, A. J., Vaughan, D. G., Ferrigno, J. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marine Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1104235; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1104235

The continued retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula has been widely attributed to recent atmospheric warming, but there is little published work describing changes in glacier margin positions. We present trends in 244 marine glacier fronts on the peninsula and associated islands over the...