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Ice shelves and landfast ice on the antarctic perimeter: revised scope of work
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Abdalati, Waleed Technical Monitor Scambos, Ted |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Description | Ice shelves respond quickly and profoundly to a warming climate. Within a decade after mean summertime temperature reaches approximately 0 deg C and persistent melt ponding is observed, a rapid retreat and disintegration begins. This link was documented for ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula region (the Larsen 'A', B', and Wilkins Ice shelves) in the results of a previous grant under ADRO-1. Modeling of shelf ice flow and the effects of meltwater indicated that melt ponding accelerates shelf breakup by increasing fracturing. The ADRO-2 funding (topic of this report) supported further inquiry into the evolution of ice shelves under warming conditions, and the post-breakup effects on their feeder glaciers. Also, this grant considered fast ice and sea ice characteristics, to the extent that they provide information regarding shelf stability. A major component of this work was in the form of NSIDC image data support and in situ sea ice research on the Aurora Australis 'ARISE' cruise of September 9 2003 through October 28 2003. |
| File Size | 559657 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20050041627 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9v170k2m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2004-12-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Climate Change Stability Ice Mapping Disintegration Land Ice Glaciers Antarctic Regions Sea Ice Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |