Basal friction of Fleming Glacier, Antarctica – Part 2: Evolution from 2008 to 2015

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: C. Zhao, R. M. Gladstone, R. C. Warner, M. A. King, T. Zwinger, M. Morlighem
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Wordie; Wordie Ice Shelf; Fleming Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2653-2018; https://doaj.org/article/8519b82319034a0d90146c002f9a088b

The Wordie Ice Shelf–Fleming Glacier system in the southern Antarctic Peninsula has experienced a long-term retreat and disintegration of its ice shelf in the past 50 years. Increases in the glacier velocity and dynamic thinning have been observed over the past two decades, especially after 2008 whe...