Iceberg calving of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: full-Stokes modeling combined with linear elastic fracture mechanics

• Main Authors: Yu, Hongju, Rignot, Eric, Morlighem, Mathieu, Seroussi, Helene
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2017
• Subjects: Climate Action; Oceanography; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; West Antarctica; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cd7d1g1

Thwaites Glacier (TG), West Antarctica, has been losing mass and retreating rapidly in the past few decades. Here, we present a study of its calving dynamics combining a two-dimensional flow-band full-Stokes (FS) model of its viscous flow with linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) theory to model...