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

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...

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Main Authors: Schlemm, Tanja, Feldmann, Johannes, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Levermann, Anders
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus 2022
Subjects:
910
Online Access:https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/11865
https://doi.org/10.34657/10898