Deformation and failure of the ice bridge on the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Humbert, A., Gross, D., Mueller, R., Braun, M., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Vaughan, D., van de Berg, W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Charcot; Charcot Island; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0018-924C-8

A narrow bridge of floating ice that connected the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, to two confining islands eventually collapsed in early April 2009. In the month preceding the collapse, we observed deformation of the ice bridge by means of satellite imagery and from an in situ GPS station. TerraSAR-...