-
- Paul R. Holland
- British Antarctic Survey Cambridge UK
-
- Hugh F. J. Corr
- British Antarctic Survey Cambridge UK
-
- David G. Vaughan
- British Antarctic Survey Cambridge UK
-
- Adrian Jenkins
- British Antarctic Survey Cambridge UK
-
- Pedro Skvarca
- División Glaciología Instituto Antártico Argentino Buenos Aires Argentina
説明
<jats:p>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 smooth and healed surface coincide downstream of regions where an ocean model predicts freezing. Visible imagery suggests that marine ice currently stabilizes Larsen C Ice Shelf and implicates failure of marine flow bands in the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf collapse. Ocean modeling indicates that any regime change towards the incursion of warmer Modified Weddell Deep Water into the Larsen C cavity could curtail basal freezing and its stabilizing influence.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
-
- Geophysical Research Letters
-
Geophysical Research Letters 36 (11), 2009-06
American Geophysical Union (AGU)