Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: D. I. Benn, A. Luckman, J. A. Åström, A. J. Crawford, S. L. Cornford, S. L. Bevan, T. Zwinger, R. Gladstone, K. Alley, E. Pettit, J. Bassis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2545-2022; https://doaj.org/article/3bba9227fc474be2acf2e101724fedd7

Ice shelves play a key role in the dynamics of marine ice sheets by buttressing grounded ice and limiting rates of ice flux to the oceans. In response to recent climatic and oceanic change, ice shelves fringing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have begun to fragment and retreat, with major implic...