The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Laffin, Matthew K., Zender, Charles S., van Wessem, Melchior, Marinsek, Sebastián
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Scar Inlet; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1369-2022; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00060660; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00060263/tc-16-1369-2022.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/1369/2022/tc-16-1369-2022.pdf

Ice shelf collapse reduces buttressing and enables grounded glaciers to contribute more rapidly to sea-level rise in a warming climate. The abrupt collapses of the Larsen A (1995) and B (2002) ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) occurred, at least for Larsen B, when long-period ocean swells...