Stability of Antarctic ice shelves: A case study of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

• Main Author: Berger, Sophie
• Other Authors: Pattyn, Frank, Tison, Jean-Louis, Coheur, Pierre, Moholdt, Geir, Drews, R
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2017
• Subjects: Glaciologie; Télédétection; Sciences de la terre et du cosmos; Cartographie; Géographie physique; Ice shelf; Antarctica; sea-level rise; pinning point; basal mass balance; climate change; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; Buttress; Roi Baudouin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/258789; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/258789/5/ContratDiBerger.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/258789/4/Berger2017_PhD_final.pdf; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/258789/3/Berger2017_TOC_final.pdf

The Antarctic ice sheet is increasingly contributing to sea-level rise because of accelerated mass losses at its floating extensions -- its ice shelves. By floating while remaining attached to the grounded ice sheet, ice shelves buttress (i.e. restrain) the inland ice in such a way that ice-shelf lo...