Petermann ice shelf may not recover after a future breakup

New experiments suggest that the Petermann Ice Shelf in northwest Greenland is unlikely to recover once a breakup occurs in the future. If this is not unique to this ice shelf, continued ocean warming may lead to high discharge from polar ice sheets.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Henning Åkesson, Mathieu Morlighem, Johan Nilsson, Christian Stranne, Martin Jakobsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29529-5