Climatic trend, retreat and disintegration of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula: an overview

• Main Authors: Skvarca, P., Rack, Wolfgang, Rott, H., Ibarzábal y Donángelo, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Larsen Ice Shelf; Marambio; Robertson Island; The Antarctic; Wilkins; Wordie; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/6005/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.16559

Observations of the retreat and disintegration of ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula during the last three decades and associated changes in airtemperature, measured at various meteorological stations on the Antarctic Peninsula, are reviewed. The climatically induced retreat of the northernL...