Investigating connections between Iceberg Melt Rates and Glacier Dynamics on the Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Dryak, Mariama C
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2019
• Subjects: icebergs; glaciers; Antarctic Peninsula; ocean-forced glacier change; iceberg melt rates; ocean conditions; glacier dynamics; frontal ablation; Antarctica; Glaciology; Other Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Antarctic; Crane Glacier; The Antarctic; Widdowson Glacier; Antarc*; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3075; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/4151/viewcontent/Dryak__Miriama_Final_6.10.2019.pdf

Over the past several decades marine-terminating glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have retreated, accelerated, and thinned in response to changing climate. Although ocean warming has been implicated as a trigger for these rapid changes in glacier dynamics, there are few ocean observations near in...