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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Schannwell, Clemens, Cornford, Stephen, Pollard, David, Barrand, Nicholas E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/4332c956-538e-48ed-829e-84398490ea13; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/4332c956-538e-48ed-829e-84398490ea13; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2307-2018; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/167362284/tc_12_2307_2018.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050468215&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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...