Marine ice in Larsen ice shelf

PR Holland, HFJ Corr, DG Vaughan… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
It is argued that Larsen Ice Shelf contains marine ice formed by oceanic freezing and other
mechanisms. Missing basal returns in airborne radar soundings and observations of a …

Cruise reveals history of Holocene Larsen ice shelf

E Domack, A Leventer, R Gilbert… - Eos, Transactions …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In May 2000 the US Antarctic Research Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer braved extensive ice
and the frigid temperatures of the Northwest Weddell Sea to penetrate the coastal leads …

Oceanic and atmospheric forcing of Larsen C Ice-Shelf thinning

PR Holland, A Brisbourne, HFJ Corr, D Mcgrath… - The …, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
The catastrophic collapses of Larsen A and B ice shelves on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula
have caused their tributary glaciers to accelerate, contributing to sea-level rise and …

[HTML][HTML] History of the Larsen C Ice Shelf reconstructed from sub–ice shelf and offshore sediments

JA Smith, CD Hillenbrand, C Subt… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Because ice shelves respond to climatic forcing over a range of time scales, from years to
millennia, an understanding of their long-term history is critically needed for predicting their …

Marine ice beneath Filchner Ice Shelf Evidence from a multi-disciplinary approach

K Grosfeld, H Hellmer, M Jonas, H Sandhäger… - Ocean, ice and …, 1998 - epic.awi.de
Marine ice is mainly formed by the accumulation and consolidation of ice platelets beneath
anice shelf. Layers of marine ice beneath ice shelves provide strong evidence of a vigorous …

Strong surface melting preceded collapse of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf

M van den Broeke - Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
During the austral summer of 2001/02, melting at the surface of Larsen Ice Shelf in the
Antarctic Peninsula was three times greater than the average of five previous summers. This …

Rapid loss of the Ayles ice shelf, Ellesmere Island, Canada

L Copland, DR Mueller, L Weir - Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
On August 13, 2005, almost the entire Ayles Ice Shelf (87.1 km2) calved off within an hour
and created a new 66.4 km2 ice island in the Arctic Ocean. This loss of one of the six …

Marine ice regulates the future stability of a large Antarctic ice shelf

B Kulessa, D Jansen, AJ Luckman, EC King… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1995 and
2002 confirm the impact of southward-propagating climate warming in this region. Recent …

Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

D Jansen, B Kulessa, PR Sammonds… - Journal of …, 2010 - cambridge.org
We modelled the flow of the Larsen C and northernmost Larsen D ice shelves, Antarctic
Peninsula, using a model of continuum mechanics of ice flow, and applied a fracture …

A millennial‐scale record of Arctic Ocean sea ice variability and the demise of the Ellesmere Island ice shelves

JH England, TR Lakeman, DS Lemmen… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Sea‐ice ice shelves, at the apex of North America (> 80° N), constitute the oldest sea ice in
the Northern Hemisphere. We document the establishment and subsequent stability of the …