Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

The most intense atmospheric rivers to hit the Antarctic Peninsula induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea ice disintegration or swell that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability, suggest analyses of observations and regional climate model simulations.

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Main Authors: Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Christoph Kittel, Jenny V. Turton, Cécile Agosta, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Ghislain Picard, Francis Codron, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Charles Amory, Xavier Fettweis, Juliette Blanchet, Vincent Jomelli, Antoine Berchet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00422-9

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00422-9

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