Stabilizing effect of mélange buttressing on the marine ice-cliff instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. Schlemm, J. Feldmann, R. Winkelmann, A. Levermann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; Misi; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1979-2022; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/1979/2022/tc-16-1979-2022.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/142963221e9d46cdb4b14e9af706463f

Owing to global warming and particularly high regional ocean warming, both Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers in the Amundsen region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose their buttressing ice shelves over time. We analyse the possible consequences using the parallel ice sheet model (PISM), applying...