Is breaking up hard to do? Clues from the sea bed

• Main Authors: Larter, Robert D., Arndt, Jan Erik, Wise, Matthew G., Friedl, Peter, Höppner, Kathrin, Jakobsson, Martin, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Gohl, Karsten
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Pine Island Glacier; Pine Island Trough; Thwaites Glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; oden
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47749/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43477699-a79e-4c4b-81a1-9694a8230862

Iceberg calving accounts for between one third and a half of the mass loss from Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier ice shelves. If increased calving results in ice-shelf retreat or break up, the loss of buttressing can be expected to lead to further flow acceleration and dynamic thinning of th...