Changes of Wilkins Ice Shelf over the past 15 years and inferences on its stability

• Main Authors: Braun, M., Humbert, A., Moll, A.
• Other Authors: Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces Bonn (ZFL), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institute for Geophysics
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere; The Cryosphere Discussions
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00298543; https://hal.science/hal-00298543/document; https://hal.science/hal-00298543/file/tcd-2-341-2008.pdf

International audience The Wilkins Ice Shelf is situated along the Antarctic Peninsula, a region where seven ice shelves disintegrated between 1995 and 2002. This study combines various remote sensing data sets over Wilkins Ice Shelf, with the aim to detect its present and near-past dynamics as well...