‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth's climate system

Investigations of the time-dependent behavior of marine ice sheets and their sensitivity to basal conditions require numerical models because existing theoretical analyses focus only on steady-state configurations primarily with a power-law basal shear stress. Numerical results indicate that the cho...

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Main Authors: Olga Sergienko, Marianne Haseloff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-10-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143023000400/type/journal_article