Impact of the Nares Strait sea ice arches on the long-term stability of the Petermann Glacier ice shelf

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Prakash, Abhay, Zhou, Qin, Hattermann, Tore, Kirchner, Nina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nares; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Nares strait; Petermann glacier; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32444; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5255-2023

One of the last remaining floating tongues of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS), the Petermann Glacier ice shelf (PGIS), is seasonally shielded from warm Atlantic water (AW) by the formation of sea ice arches in the Nares Strait. However, continued decline of the Arctic sea ice extent and thickness sug...