Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?"
Final revised paper. The effects of an ice-shelf collapse on inland glacier dynamics have recently been widely studied, especially since the breakup of the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen-B ice shelf in 2002. Several studies have documented acceleration of the ice streams that were flowing into th...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/62043 2024-02-11T09:58:40+01:00 Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" Álvarez-Solas, J. Robinson, Alexander Ritz, Catherine 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/62043 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 en eng European Geosciences Union http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 Alvarez-Solas, J., Robinson, A., and Ritz, C. (2012). Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?", The Cryosphere, 6, 687-693, doi:10.5194/tc-6-687-2012. 1994-0432 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/62043 doi:10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 1994-0440 open Climatología Climatology artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2012 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 2024-01-16T09:43:18Z Final revised paper. The effects of an ice-shelf collapse on inland glacier dynamics have recently been widely studied, especially since the breakup of the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen-B ice shelf in 2002. Several studies have documented acceleration of the ice streams that were flowing into the former ice shelf. The mechanism responsible for such a speed-up lies with the removal of the ice-shelf backforce. Independently, it is also well documented that during the last glacial period, the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets experienced large discharges into the ocean, likely reflecting ice flow acceleration episodes on the millennial time scale. The classic interpretation of the latter is based on the existence of an internal thermo-mechanical feedback with the potential to generate oscillatory behavior in the ice sheets. Here we would like to widen the debate by considering that Larsen-B-like glacial analog episodes could have contributed significantly to the registered millennial-scale variablity. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Shelf The Cryosphere Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Antarctic The Antarctic The Cryosphere 6 3 687 693 |
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Final revised paper. The effects of an ice-shelf collapse on inland glacier dynamics have recently been widely studied, especially since the breakup of the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen-B ice shelf in 2002. Several studies have documented acceleration of the ice streams that were flowing into the former ice shelf. The mechanism responsible for such a speed-up lies with the removal of the ice-shelf backforce. Independently, it is also well documented that during the last glacial period, the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets experienced large discharges into the ocean, likely reflecting ice flow acceleration episodes on the millennial time scale. The classic interpretation of the latter is based on the existence of an internal thermo-mechanical feedback with the potential to generate oscillatory behavior in the ice sheets. Here we would like to widen the debate by considering that Larsen-B-like glacial analog episodes could have contributed significantly to the registered millennial-scale variablity. Peer reviewed |
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Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" |
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Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" |
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Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" |
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Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" |
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Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?" |
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brief communication "can recent ice discharges following the larsen-b ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the laurentide ice sheet?" |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 Alvarez-Solas, J., Robinson, A., and Ritz, C. (2012). Brief communication "Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet?", The Cryosphere, 6, 687-693, doi:10.5194/tc-6-687-2012. 1994-0432 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/62043 doi:10.5194/tc-6-687-2012 1994-0440 |
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