The origin of ice-shelf channels revisited

• Main Authors: Drews, Reinhard, Jansen, Daniela, Franke, Steven, Pattyn, Frank, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51306/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51306/1/2019_Stanford.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8018ba19-337d-4f4e-8756-c43a7d0d7e7d

Antarctic ice shelves often contain narrow, curvilinear tracts of thin ice, termed ice-shelf channels, that impact ice-shelf stability. Their surface depressions appear prominently in satellite imagery and form an interesting morphology of unknown origin, the more so because the processes leading to...