B.: Assessment of the importance of ice-shelf buttressing to ice-sheet flow, Geophys

[1] Reduction or loss of a restraining ice shelf will cause speed-up of flow from contiguous ice streams, contributing to sea-level rise, with greater changes from ice streams that are wider, have stickier beds, or have higher driving stress. Loss of buttressing offsetting half of the tendency for i...

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Main Authors: T. K. Dupont, R. B. Alley
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.419.8188
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/pdfs/DupontAlley2005.pdf