Channelized Melting Drives Thinning Under a Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf
International audience Ice shelves play a vital role in regulating loss of grounded ice and in supplying freshwater to coastal seas. However, melt variability within ice shelves is poorly constrained and may be instrumental in driving ice shelf imbalance and collapse. High-resolution altimetry measu...
Published in: | Geophysical Research Letters |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2017
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Online Access: | https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03707642 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03707642/document https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03707642/file/Geophysical%20Research%20Letters%20-%202017%20-%20Gourmelen%20-%20Channelized%20Melting%20Drives%20Thinning%20Under%20a%20Rapidly%20Melting%20Antarctic%20Ice.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074929 |