Dynamic response of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet to potential collapse of Larsen C and George VI ice shelves

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: C. Schannwell, S. Cornford, D. Pollard, N. E. Barrand
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2307-2018; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/2307/2018/tc-12-2307-2018.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/799236950ae74fda89d511dd0e536868

Ice shelf break-up and disintegration events over the past 5 decades have led to speed-up, thinning, and retreat of upstream tributary glaciers and increases to rates of global sea-level rise. The southward progression of these episodes indicates a climatic cause and in turn suggests that the larger...