Stabilizing effect of mélange buttressing on the Marine Ice Cliff Instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Schlemm, Tanja, Feldmann, Johannes, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Levermann, Anders
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Misi; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-238; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-238/

Due to global warming and particularly high regional ocean warming, both Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in the Amundsen region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose their buttressing ice shelves over time. We analyze the possible consequences using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM), applying a...