Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Naughten, Kaitlin A., De Rydt, Jan, Rosier, Sebastian H.R., Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R., Ridley, Jeff K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ronne Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf; Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528343/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528343/1/s41467-021-22259-0.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22259-0

A potentially irreversible threshold in Antarctic ice shelf melting would be crossed if the ocean cavity beneath the large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf were to become flooded with warm water from the deep ocean. Previous studies have identified this possibility, but there is great uncertainty as to how...