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