Petermann ice shelf may not recover after a future breakup

New experiments suggest that the Petermann Ice Shelf in northwest Greenland is unlikely to recover once a breakup occurs in the future. If this is not unique to this ice shelf, continued ocean warming may lead to high discharge from polar ice sheets.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Henning Åkesson, Mathieu Morlighem, Johan Nilsson, Christian Stranne, Martin Jakobsson
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
Science
Q
Greenland
Ice Shelf
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29529-5
https://doaj.org/article/8301668fea2c415ea8977813f7529e51
Description
Summary:New experiments suggest that the Petermann Ice Shelf in northwest Greenland is unlikely to recover once a breakup occurs in the future. If this is not unique to this ice shelf, continued ocean warming may lead to high discharge from polar ice sheets.

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