Evolution of ice-shelf channels in Antarctic ice shelves

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Author: Drews, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Buttress; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1169-2015; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00016323; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00016278/tc-9-1169-2015.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/1169/2015/tc-9-1169-2015.pdf

Ice shelves buttress the continental ice flux and mediate ice–ocean interactions. They are often traversed by channels in which basal melting is enhanced, impacting ice-shelf stability. Here, channel evolution is investigated using a transient, three-dimensional full Stokes model and geophysical dat...