The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
In recent decades, several ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have diminished in size as a result of climate warming. Using aerial photographic, satellite and survey data we document a similar retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, which was another small ice shelf on the west coast of the Antarctic Pen...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:1785 2024-06-09T07:40:25+00:00 The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula Fox, Adrian J. Vaughan, David G. 2005 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1785/ unknown International Glaciological Society Fox, Adrian J. orcid:0000-0001-7477-0671 Vaughan, David G. orcid:0000-0002-9065-0570 . 2005 The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology, 51 (175). 555-560. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043 <https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043> Glaciology Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2005 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043 2024-05-15T08:42:16Z In recent decades, several ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have diminished in size as a result of climate warming. Using aerial photographic, satellite and survey data we document a similar retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, which was another small ice shelf on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. This ice shelf was roughly stable between 1947 and 1969, but in the early 1970s it began to retreat and had completely disappeared by early 2003. Jones Ice Shelf has two ice fronts only a few kilometres apart and its retreat provides a unique opportunity to examine how different ice fronts retreat when subjected to similar climate forcing. We mapped the retreat of both the east and west ice fronts of Jones Ice Shelf and found that, although individual episodes of retreat may be related to particularly warm summers, the overall progress of retreat of the two ice fronts has been rather different. This suggests that in this case the course of retreat is controlled by the geometry of the embayment and location of pinning points as well as climatic events. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Jones Ice Shelf Journal of Glaciology Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Jones Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(-67.004,-67.004,-67.500,-67.500) The Antarctic Journal of Glaciology 51 175 555 560 |
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In recent decades, several ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have diminished in size as a result of climate warming. Using aerial photographic, satellite and survey data we document a similar retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, which was another small ice shelf on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. This ice shelf was roughly stable between 1947 and 1969, but in the early 1970s it began to retreat and had completely disappeared by early 2003. Jones Ice Shelf has two ice fronts only a few kilometres apart and its retreat provides a unique opportunity to examine how different ice fronts retreat when subjected to similar climate forcing. We mapped the retreat of both the east and west ice fronts of Jones Ice Shelf and found that, although individual episodes of retreat may be related to particularly warm summers, the overall progress of retreat of the two ice fronts has been rather different. This suggests that in this case the course of retreat is controlled by the geometry of the embayment and location of pinning points as well as climatic events. |
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The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula |
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The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula |
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Fox, Adrian J. orcid:0000-0001-7477-0671 Vaughan, David G. orcid:0000-0002-9065-0570 . 2005 The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology, 51 (175). 555-560. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043 <https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043> |
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