Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean: dynamical regimes of a basin-covering kilometre-thick ice shelf

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Nilsson, J, Jakobsson, M, Borstad, C, Kirchner, N, Björk, G, Pierrehumbert, R, Stranne, C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Weertman; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Lomonosov Ridge
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1745-2017; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d3000f62-2ed8-4b68-b3b0-b11e2357b9f4

Recent geological and geophysical data suggest that a 1km thick ice shelf extended over the glacial Arctic Ocean during Marine Isotope Stage 6, about 140000 years ago. Here, we theoretically analyse the development and equilibrium features of such an ice shelf, using scaling analyses and a one-dimen...