Dynamic changes on the Wilkins Ice Shelf during the 2006–2009 retreat derived from satellite observations

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Rankl, Melanie, Fürst, Johannes Jakob, Humbert, Angelika, Braun, Matthias Holger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1199-2017; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00010159; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00010116/tc-11-1199-2017.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/11/1199/2017/tc-11-1199-2017.pdf

The vast ice shelves around Antarctica provide significant restraint to the outflow from adjacent tributary glaciers. This important buttressing effect became apparent in the last decades, when outlet glaciers accelerated considerably after several ice shelves were lost around the Antarctic Peninsul...