Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf.

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Dell, Rebecca, Arnold, Neil, Willis, Ian, Banwell, Alison, Williamson, Andrew, Pritchard, Hamish, Orr, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• 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/

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...