Atmospheric drivers of melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf: surface energy budget regimes and the impact of foehn

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Elvidge, Andrew D., Kuipers Munneke, Peter, King, John C., Renfrew, Ian A., Gilbert, Ella
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Cabinet Inlet; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527839/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527839/1/2020JD032463.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JD032463

Recent ice shelf retreat on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula has been principally attributed to atmospherically driven melt. However, previous studies on the largest of these ice shelves – Larsen C – have struggled to reconcile atmospheric forcing with observed melt. This study provides the...