Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls

• Main Authors: Baldacchino, Francesca, Morlighem, Mathieu, Golledge, Nicholas R., Horgan, Huw, Malyarenko, Alena
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Ross Island; Ross Ice Shelf; Transantarctic Mountains; Siple; Roosevelt Island; Siple Coast; Crary Ice Rise; Shirase Coast; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-50; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-50/

The Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) is currently stable but recent observations have indicated that basal melt rates beneath the ice shelf are expected to increase. It is important to know which areas of the RIS are more sensitive to enhanced basal melting as well as other external forcings or internal materia...