Spontaneous ice-front retreat caused by disintegration of adjacent ice shelf in Antarctica

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 393, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-30

  Albrecht, Torsten ^a,b   Levermann, Anders ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Glaciology; Iceberg calving; Larsen ice shelf; Numerical ice modeling; Sea level

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; GLACIOLOGY; ICE MODEL; ICE SHELVES; ICEBERG CALVING;

SEA LEVEL;

FLOATING ICE; GLACIOLOGY; ICE RETREAT; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG CALVING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; LARSEN ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84895773679     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.02.034     Document Type: Article

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