Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Jansen, D., Kulessa, B., Sammonds, P.R., Luckman, A., King, Edward, Glasser, N.F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2010
• Subjects: Glaciology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Kenyon; Kenyon peninsula; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11260/; http://www.igsoc.org/journal/56/198/j10J001.pdf

We modelled the flow of the Larsen C and northernmost Larsen D ice shelves, Antarctic Peninsula, using a model of continuum mechanics of ice flow, and applied a fracture criterion to the simulated velocities to investigate the ice shelf’s present-day stability. Constraints come from satellite data a...