The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf system

• Main Authors: Hellmer, Hartmut, Ryan, Svenja, Janout, Markus, Schröder, Michael, Stulic, Lukrecia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ronne Ice Shelf; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48547/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.65efc3f1-e1f1-4a82-bac8-e2d9a02a5d7d

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS), the largest (by volume) floating extension of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), fringes the southern Weddell Sea known to be the dominant source of the globally relevant Antarctic Bottom Water. As a link between ocean and ice sheet, this ice shelf plays an important...