Commentary: Impacts of the Larsen-C Ice Shelf calving event

A giant iceberg has calved off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf, the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, reducing its total area by ~10%. Whilst calving events are a natural phenomenon and thus not necessarily indicative of changing environmental conditions, such events can impact ice-shel...

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Published in:Nature Climate Change
Main Authors: Hogg, Anna, Gudmundsson, Hilmar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Nature Publishing 2017
Subjects:
F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Ice Shelf
Iceberg*
Online Access:https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34591/
https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3359
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Summary:A giant iceberg has calved off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf, the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, reducing its total area by ~10%. Whilst calving events are a natural phenomenon and thus not necessarily indicative of changing environmental conditions, such events can impact ice-shelf stability.

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