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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

West Antarctic surface melt event of January 2016 facilitated by föhn warming

X Zou, DH Bromwich, JP Nicolas… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) buttresses ice streams from the Antarctic continent and restrains
the grounded ice sheet from flowing into the ocean, which is important for the stability of the …

[HTML][HTML] A 15-year circum-Antarctic iceberg calving dataset derived from continuous satellite observations

M Qi, Y Liu, J Liu, X Cheng, Y Lin… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Iceberg calving is the main process that facilitates the dynamic mass loss of ice sheets into
the ocean, which accounts for approximately half of the mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet …

Record winter winds in 2020/21 drove exceptional Arctic sea ice transport

RDC Mallett, JC Stroeve, SB Cornish… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
The volume of Arctic sea ice is in decline but exhibits high interannual variability, which is
driven primarily by atmospheric circulation. Through analysis of satellite-derived ice …

Moisture transport and Antarctic sea ice: austral spring 2016 event

M Ionita, P Scholz, K Grosfeld… - Earth System …, 2018 - esd.copernicus.org
In austral spring 2016 the Antarctic region experienced anomalous sea ice retreat in all
sectors, with sea ice extent in October and November 2016 being the lowest in the Southern …

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 …

Imminent calving accelerated by increased instability of the Brunt Ice Shelf, in response to climate warming

Y Cheng, M Xia, G Qiao, D Lv, Y Li, G Hai - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ice shelves in the Southern Weddell Sea have large areas and volumes, and have
previously been stable due to their setting in a region of cold near-surface and sub-surface …