Atmospheric extremes caused high oceanward sea surface slope triggering the biggest calving event in more than 50 years at the Amery Ice Shelf

D Francis, KS Mattingly, S Lhermitte, M Temimi… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice shelf instability is one of the main sources of uncertainty in Antarctica's contribution to
future sea level rise. Calving events play a crucial role in ice shelf weakening but remain …

[PDF][PDF] Atmospheric extremes triggered the biggest calving event in more than 50 years at the Amery Ice shelf in September 2019

D Francis, KS Mattingly, S Lhermitte, M Temimi, P Heil - Cryosphere, 2021 - academia.edu
Ice shelf instability is one of the main sources of uncertainty in Antarctica's contribution to
future 17 sea level rise. Calving events play crucial role in ice shelf weakening but remain …

Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation

FDW Christie, TJ Benham, CL Batchelor, W Rack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The disintegration of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen A and B ice shelves has been
attributed to atmosphere and ocean warming, and increased mass losses from the glaciers …

Atmospheric triggers of the Brunt Ice Shelf calving in February 2021

D Francis, R Fonseca, KS Mattingly… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The calving of Antarctic ice shelves remains unpredictable to date due to a lack of
understanding of the role of the different climatic components in such events. In this study …

Halley Research Station, Antarctica: calving risks and monitoring strategies

R Anderson, DH Jones… - Natural Hazards and …, 2014 - nhess.copernicus.org
The British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf,
Antarctica, where it is potentially vulnerable to calving events. Existing historical records …

Record low sea ice extent in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in April/May 2019 driven by intense and explosive polar cyclones

B Jena, CC Bajish, J Turner, M Ravichandran… - Npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Sea ice extent (SIE) in the Weddell Sea attained exceptionally low levels in April (1.97
million km2) and May (3.06 million km2) 2019, with the values being~ 22% below the long …

Calving and rifting on the McMurdo ice shelf, Antarctica

AF Banwell, IC Willis, GJ Macdonald, B Goodsell… - Annals of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
On 2 March 2016, several small en échelon tabular icebergs calved from the seaward front
of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, and a previously inactive rift widened and propagated by~ 3 km …

A high resolution, three‐dimensional view of the D‐28 calving event from Amery Ice Shelf with ICESat‐2 and satellite imagery

CC Walker, MK Becker… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tabular calving events occur from Antarctica's large ice shelves only every few decades,
and are preceded by rift propagation. We used high‐resolution imagery and ICESat‐2 data …

Central tropical Pacific convection drives extreme high temperatures and surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

KR Clem, D Bozkurt, D Kennett, JC King… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf, eastern Antarctic Peninsula (AP) have
experienced dramatic break-up and collapse since the early 1990s due to strong …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale drivers of the exceptionally low winter Antarctic sea ice extent in 2023

M Ionita - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The year 2023 marked a turning point for the Antarctic region as the Southern Hemisphere
experienced a significant reduction in its sea ice extent, with a record-breaking sea ice …