Changes of Wilkins Ice Shelf over the past 15 years and inferences on its stability

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Braun, M., Humbert, A., Moll, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2009
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-3-41-2009; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00030548; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00030502/tc-3-41-2009.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/3/41/2009/tc-3-41-2009.pdf

The Wilkins Ice Shelf is situated on the Antarctic Peninsula, a region where seven ice shelves disintegrated or retreated between 1995 and 2002. This study combines various remote sensing datasets from Wilkins Ice Shelf, with the aim of detecting its present and recent dynamics as well as recent cha...