Dynamic response of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet to potential collapse of Larsen C and George VI ice shelves

Ice shelf break-up and disintegration events over the past 5 decades have led to speed-up, thinning, and retreat of upstream tributary glaciers and increases to rates of global sea-level rise. The southward progression of these episodes indicates a climatic cause and in turn suggests that the larger...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Schannwell, Clemens, Cornford, Stephen, Pollard, David, Barrand, Nicholas E.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2307-2018
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/2307/2018/