Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Christoph Kittel, Jenny V. Turton, Cécile Agosta, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Ghislain Picard, Francis Codron, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Charles Amory, Xavier Fettweis, Juliette Blanchet, Vincent Jomelli, Antoine Berchet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00422-9; https://doaj.org/article/5368f71a0e2b4983bc8f61cdd9080f57

The most intense atmospheric rivers to hit the Antarctic Peninsula induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea ice disintegration or swell that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability, suggest analyses of observations and regional climate model simulations.