Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf
Ice shelves play a key role in the dynamics of marine ice sheets by buttressing grounded ice and limiting rates of ice flux to the oceans. In response to recent climatic and oceanic change, ice shelves fringing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have begun to fragment and retreat, with major implic...
Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2022
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2545-2022 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00061661 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00061089/tc-16-2545-2022.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2545/2022/tc-16-2545-2022.pdf |