Alternative ice shelf equilibria determined by ocean environment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 970-981

  Sergienko, O V ^a   Goldberg, D N ^b   Little, C M ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ice shelves; numerical modeling; sub ice shelf cavities

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BASAL MELTING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ICE SHELF; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84880753475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20054     Document Type: Article

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