Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf.
Surface meltwater on ice shelves can exist as slush, it can pond in lakes or crevasses, or it can flow in surface streams and rivers. The collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 has been attributed to the sudden drainage of similar to 3000 surface lakes and has highlighted the potential for surfa...
Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus
2020
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528353/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528353/1/tc-14-2313-2020.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2313/2020/ |