ice shelves
Calving glaciers and ice shelves
... floating ice shelves has been a long-standing problem in ...terrestrial ice cliffs in polar and high-mountain ...Larsen ice shelves in 1995 and 2002, and flow acceleration and retreat of ...
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Responses of basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves to the climatic forcing of the last glacial maximum and CO2 doubling
... Antarctic ice sheet and thinning of the ice shelves (Pritchard et ...Antarctic ice sheet under climatic conditions both warmer and colder than the present, represented by the Last Interglacial ...
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Evaluation of the criticality of cracks in ice shelves using finite element simulations
... in ice in combination with appropriate BCs and material parameters turned out to be crucial for a physical understanding the of fracture mech- anism that lead to disintegration of ice ...of ice ...
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Surface energy budget on Larsen and Wilkins ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula: results based on reanalyses in 1989–2010
... Abstract. Ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula have signif- icantly disintegrated during recent ...C Ice Shelf (LCIS) and Wilkins Ice Shelf (WIS) in the Antarctic Peninsula in ...
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Changes in flow of Crosson and Dotson ice shelves, West Antarctica, in response to elevated melt
... Dotson ice shelves are two of the most rapidly changing outlets in West Antarctica, displaying both significant thinning and grounding-line retreat in recent ...and ice geometry to investigate the ...
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Monitoring ice shelf velocities from repeat MODIS and Landsat data – a method study on the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, and 10 other ice shelves around Antarctica
... Velocities of glaciers, ice sheets and ice shelves can be mea- sured successfully by remote sensing techniques. The two most commonly used methods so far have been radar in- terferometry and ...
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Modelling the Early Weichselian Eurasian Ice Sheets: role of ice shelves and influence of ice-dammed lakes
... 5. Ice shelf front positions are determined with a scheme where two criteria must be ...the ice on the front grid point, first, the ice thickness must decrease below 150 ...observed ice shelf ...
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Tidal bending of ice shelves as a mechanism for large-scale temporal variations in ice flow
... in ice flow: a non- linear basal sliding law (Gudmundsson, 2007, 2011; Rosier et ...effective ice shelf width (Minchew et ...in ice flow is impor- tant for several ...impacting ice flow on a ...
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Hydroelastic analysis of ice shelves under long wave excitation
... The present analysis aims to provide some first and sim- ple means for the estimation of long wave impact on float- ing, slender formations and their response, as a first step to- wards the hydroelastic modelling of ...
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Creep deformation and buttressing capacity of damaged ice shelves: theory and application to Larsen C ice shelf
... of ice shelves using remote sensing data, the types of damage calculations presented here will serve as important bench- marks for testing and optimizing dynamic damage evolution ...large-scale ice ...
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Sea-level response to melting of Antarctic ice shelves on multi-centennial timescales with the fast Elementary Thermomechanical Ice Sheet model (f.ETISh v1.0)
... in ice volume above floatation (Bind- schadler et ...in ice flux with increased precipitation ...the ice sheet to the imposed tempera- ture and precipitation changes and because weakening of ...
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Freshening by glacial meltwater enhances melting of ice shelves and reduces formation of Antarctic Bottom Water
... many ice shelves, indicating that glacial meltwater input is insufficient to prevent DSW formation, as found at Cape Darnley Polynya ...the ice shelf cavities sporadically at mid depth, with limited ...
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Brief communication: A submarine wall protecting the Amundsen Sea intensifies melting of neighboring ice shelves
... Getz Ice Shelf into the walled region ...neighboring ice shelves with a retrograde bed (for example, Thwaites ...marine ice sheet insta- ...
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Distribution of water masses and meltwater on the continental shelf near the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves
... Our observations show that relatively warm mCDW is widespread below 500 m on the continental shelf of the Sabrina Coast. Fresh WW overlies the saline mCDW. No DSW was observed on the continental shelf, sug- gesting that ...
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Brief communication: widespread potential for seawater infiltration on Antarctic ice shelves
... of ice shelves covered by a potential brine zone may also be set to grow in a warming ...underneath ice shelves have been observed to increase in re- cent decades, particularly in West ...
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Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years
... other ice fronts and is published as hardcopy maps with detailed accompanying reports (Ferrigno et ...in ice shelf fronts were excluded from that study and are brought up to date and described ...of ...
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Dynamic response of Antarctic ice shelves to bedrock uncertainty
... by ice flow from the continent (Rignot et al., 2008, 2013). Ice shelves play an important role in the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet through their buttressing effect on the grounded ...
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Constraining variable density of ice shelves using wide-angle radar measurements
... of ice shelves, a basic parameter for mass balance estimates, is typically inferred using hy- drostatic equilibrium, for which knowledge of the depth- averaged density is ...to ice depends on a ...
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Evolution of ice-shelf channels in Antarctic ice shelves
... The simulations propose that channelized melting imprints the channel’s flow field in a characteristic way which can be detected in the surface velocities. The flow of ice shelves, however, is often ...
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Can SMOS Ocean Salinity Data Detect a Link Between Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Freshwater Flux from Basal Melting of Antarctic ice shelves?
... the ice shelves of ...the ice shelf (Font et ...in ice shelves around Antarctica, to measure Antarctic-wide freshwater flux, and to study regional trends in freshwater melt rates ...
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