Drivers of change in East Antarctic ice shelves

• Main Author: Greene, Chad Allen
• Other Authors: Blankenship, Donald D., Dickinson, Robert E., Heimbach, Patrick, Jackson, Charles S., Wilson, Clark R., Young, Duncan A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctica; Ice; Glaciers; Ice sheets; Ice shelves; Climate; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Totten Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; Totten Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/63853; https://doi.org/10.15781/T20R9MM6G

Antarctica holds enough landlocked ice to raise the global sea level by nearly 60 m in the event of wholesale ice sheet collapse. In East Antarctica, the Aurora Subglacial Basin is drained by Totten Glacier and is one of the world’s largest and most rapidly-changing ice catchment systems. In recent...