Ice Shelf
-West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has potential for collapse-WAIS is classified as a marine ice sheet, i.e. part of it is grounded on land below sea level and the other part floats on the oceans as ice shelves-Dynamics of ice behavior at grounding line (junction of grounded ice with ice shelf) signif...
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2008
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.585.5410 http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/387h/lectures/briel_wais.pdf |
Summary: | -West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has potential for collapse-WAIS is classified as a marine ice sheet, i.e. part of it is grounded on land below sea level and the other part floats on the oceans as ice shelves-Dynamics of ice behavior at grounding line (junction of grounded ice with ice shelf) signifies potential instability.-Over 90 % of ice loss flows through only 10 ice streams-Total collapse of WAIS would lead to sea level rise of 4-6 meters |
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