Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean: dynamical regimes of a basin-covering kilometre-thick ice shelf

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Nilsson, Johan, Jakobsson, Martin, Borstad, Chris, Kirchner, Nina, Björk, Göran, Pierrehumbert, Raymond T., Stranne, Christian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Weertman; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Lomonosov Ridge
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1745-2017; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/11/1745/2017/

Recent geological and geophysical data suggest that a 1 km thick ice shelf extended over the glacial Arctic Ocean during Marine Isotope Stage 6, about 140 000 years ago. Here, we theoretically analyse the development and equilibrium features of such an ice shelf, using scaling analyses and a one-dim...