Petermann ice shelf may not recover after a future breakup
Floating ice shelves buttress inland ice and curtail grounded-ice discharge. Climate warming causes melting and ultimately breakup of ice shelves, which could escalate ocean-bound ice discharge and thereby sea-level rise. Should ice shelves collapse, it is unclear whether they could recover, even if...
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| Language: | English |
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NLM (Medline)
2022
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