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Millennial‐Scale Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Regional Ice Shelf Collapse

Daniel F. Martin, Stephen Cornford Orcid Logo, Antony J. Payne

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 1467 - 1475

Swansea University Author: Stephen Cornford Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1029/2018gl081229

Abstract

The response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to ice shelf collapse is explored with a high resolution ice sheet model. Rapid melting is applied to each of its major present day drainage basins in turn , to determine which parts of the ice sheet are most vulnerable to change in oceanic forcing, over the n...

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Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN: 0094-8276 1944-8007
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2019
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48122
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Abstract: The response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to ice shelf collapse is explored with a high resolution ice sheet model. Rapid melting is applied to each of its major present day drainage basins in turn , to determine which parts of the ice sheet are most vulnerable to change in oceanic forcing, over the next 1000 years. We findthat West Antarctica can be largely deglaciated over a millenium, leading to more than two metres of sea level rise, if any of its major ice shelved disintegrated. The response of East Antarctica is more muted, but not negligible.
Keywords: Antarctica, Ice sheet modelling, sea level rise
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 3
Start Page: 1467
End Page: 1475