Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf

• Main Authors: Dell, Rebecca, Arnold, Neil, Willis, Ian, Banwell, Alison, Williamson, Andrew, Pritchard, Hamish
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-316; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-316/

Surface meltwater on ice shelves can be stored as slush, in melt ponds, in surface streams and rivers, and may also fill crevasses. The collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 has been attributed to the sudden drainage of ~ 3000 surface lakes, and has highlighted the potential for surface water t...