Sea-level response to melting of Antarctic ice shelves on multi-centennial scales with the fast Elementary Thermomechanical Ice Sheet (f.ETISh v1.0) model

• Main Author: Pattyn, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Sciences exactes et naturelles; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Pollard; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/243186; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/243186/3/tc-11-1851-2017.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/243186/4/doi_226813.pdf

The magnitude of the Antarctic ice sheet's contribution to global sea-level rise is dominated by the potential of its marine sectors to become unstable and collapse as a response to ocean (and atmospheric) forcing. This paper presents Antarctic sea-level response to sudden atmospheric and ocean...