Dynamic changes on the Wilkins Ice Shelf during the 2006–2009 retreat derived from satellite observations

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Rankl, Melanie, Fürst, Johannes, Humbert, Angelika, Braun, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44525/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/44525/1/tc-11-1199-2017.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50837; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.50837.d001

The vast ice shelves around Antarctica provide significant restraint to the outflow from adjacent tributary glaciers. This important buttressing effect became apparent in the last decades, when outlet glaciers accelerated considerably after several ice shelves were lost around the Antarctic Peninsul...