Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf

• Main Authors: Dell, Rebecca, Arnold, Neil, Willis, Ian, Banwell, Alison, Williamson, Andrew, Pritchard, Hamish, Orr, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Antarctic; Nivlisen; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308335; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55427

Surface meltwater on ice shelves can exist as slush, it can pond in lakes or crevasses, or it can flow in surface streams and rivers. The collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 has been attributed to the sudden drainage of ~3000 surface lakes, and has highlighted the potential for surface water...