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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Main Authors: Åkesson, H. (Author), Jakobsson, M. (Author), Morlighem, M. (Author), Nilsson, J. (Author), Stranne, C. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NLM (Medline) 2022
Subjects:
sea
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