Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

JD Wille, V Favier, NC Jourdain, C Kittel… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The disintegration of the ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have spurred much
discussion on the various processes leading to their eventual dramatic collapse, but without …

West Antarctic surface melt triggered by atmospheric rivers

JD Wille, V Favier, A Dufour, IV Gorodetskaya… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent major melting events in West Antarctica have raised concerns about a potential
hydrofracturing and ice shelf instability. These events often share common forcings of …

Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5 C, 2 C, and 4 C of future warming

E Gilbert, C Kittel - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The future surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctic ice shelves has not been constrained
with models of sufficient resolution and complexity. Here, we force the high‐resolution …

Impacts of the Larsen-C Ice Shelf calving event

AE Hogg, GH Gudmundsson - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research

J Ingels, RB Aronson, CR Smith, A Baco… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The calving of A‐68, the 5,800‐km2, 1‐trillion‐ton iceberg shed from the Larsen C Ice Shelf
in July 2017, is one of over 10 significant ice‐shelf loss events in the past few decades …

Environmental drivers of circum-Antarctic glacier and ice shelf front retreat over the last two decades

CA Baumhoer, AJ Dietz, C Kneisel, H Paeth… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The safety band of Antarctica, consisting of floating glacier tongues and ice shelves,
buttresses ice discharge of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Recent disintegration events of ice …

The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves

JJ Fürst, G Durand, F Gillet-Chaulet, L Tavard… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
The floating ice shelves along the seaboard of the Antarctic ice sheet restrain the outflow of
upstream grounded ice,. Removal of these ice shelves, as shown by past ice-shelf recession …

More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice

P Zhang, G Chen, M Ting, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent decades, Arctic sea-ice coverage underwent a drastic decline in winter, when sea
ice is expected to recover following the melting season. It is unclear to what extent …

Impacts of warm water on Antarctic ice shelf stability through basal channel formation

KE Alley, TA Scambos, MR Siegfried, HA Fricker - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
Antarctica's ice shelves provide resistance to the flow of grounded ice towards the ocean. If
this resistance is decreased as a result of ice shelf thinning or disintegration, acceleration of …

Record-high Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and surface melt in February 2022: a compound event with an intense atmospheric river

IV Gorodetskaya, C Durán-Alarcón… - npj climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) experienced a new extreme warm event and record-
high surface melt in February 2022, rivaling the recent temperature records from 2015 and …