Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Jansen, D, Kulessa, B, Sammonds, PR, Luckman, A, King, EC, Glasser, NF
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: INT GLACIOL SOC 2010
• Subjects: COLLAPSE; ASSIMILATION; FRACTURE; SYSTEM; MODEL; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Kenyon; Kenyon peninsula; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/375225/

We modelled the flow of the Larsen C and northernmost Larsen D ice shelves, Antarctic Peninsula, using a model of continuum mechanics of ice flow, and applied a fracture criterion to the simulated velocities to investigate the ice shelf's present-day stability. Constraints come from satellite d...