Oceanic controls on the mass balance of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Padman, L., Costa, D. P., Dinniman, M.S., Fricker, H.A., Goebel, M.E., Huckstadt, L.A., Humbert, A., Joughin, A., Lenaerts, J.T.M., Ligtenberg, S.R.M., Scambos, T., van den Broeke, M.R.
• Other Authors: Marine and Atmospheric Research, Sub Dynamics Meteorology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pine Island Glacier; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/242384

Several Antarctic Peninsula (AP) ice shelves have lost significant fractions of their volume over the past decades, coincident with rapid regional climate change. Wilkins Ice Shelf (WIS), on the western side of the AP, is the most recent, experiencing a sequence of large calving events in 2008 and 2...