Stabilizing effect of mélange buttressing on the marine ice-cliff instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Schlemm, Tanja, Feldmann, Johannes, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Levermann, Anders
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus 2022
• Subjects: Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; global warming; 910; Antarctic; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Misi; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/11865; https://doi.org/10.34657/10898

Owing to global warming and particularly high regional ocean warming, both Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers in the Amundsen region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose their buttressing ice shelves over time. We analyse the possible consequences using the parallel ice sheet model (PISM), applying...