Contribution of Roughness to the Comprehension of Features on Ice Shelves and Implications for Ice Shelf Vulnerability

• Main Author: Watkins, Ray
• Other Authors: Bassis, Jeremy N, Thouless, Michael, Rood, Richard B, Lu, Wei
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Ice Shelves; Climate Change; Engineering (General); Engineering; Antarctic; Buttress; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/177713; https://doi.org/10.7302/8170

Understanding the fate and stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is paramount for future projections of sea level rise in the coming centuries. Ice shelves---permanent, floating, sections of ice that fringe the coastline of Antarctica,---regulate the discharge of land-based ice into the ocean and are...