Dynamic response of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet to potential collapse of Larsen C and George VI ice shelves

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Schannwell, Clemens, Cornford, Stephen, Pollard, David, Barrand, Nicholas E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520594/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520594/1/tc-12-2307-2018.pdf; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/2307/2018/tc-12-2307-2018.html

Ice shelf break-up and disintegration events over the past 5 decades have led to speed-up, thinning, and retreat of upstream tributary glaciers and increases to rates of global sea-level rise. The southward progression of these episodes indicates a climatic cause and in turn suggests that the larger...