Changes in ice-shelf buttressing following the collapse of Larsen A Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and the resulting impact on tributaries

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Royston, Sam, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Buttressing; Glacier modelling; Ice shelves; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drygalski; Drygalski Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/2f82f7df-2a8c-40a4-a59e-171a923a374c; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/2f82f7df-2a8c-40a4-a59e-171a923a374c; https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.77; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/153597417/Full_text_PDF_final_published_version_.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994614171&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The dominant mass-loss process on the Antarctic Peninsula has been ice-shelf collapse, including the Larsen A Ice Shelf in early 1995. Following this collapse, there was rapid speed up and thinning of its tributary glaciers. We model the impact of this ice-shelf collapse on upstream tributaries, and...