Direct measurements of ice-shelf flexure caused by surface meltwater ponding and drainage.

• Main Authors: Banwell, Alison F, Willis, Ian C, Macdonald, Grant J, Goodsell, Becky, MacAyeal, Douglas R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2019
• Subjects: 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288943; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.36206

Global sea-level rise is caused, in part, by more rapid ice discharge from Antarctica, following the removal of the restraining forces of floating ice-shelves after their break-up. A trigger of ice-shelf break-up is thought to be stress variations associated with surface meltwater ponding and draina...