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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2743-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2743-2017
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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05 Dec 2017
Research article |
| 05 Dec 2017
Centuries of intense surface melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf
Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Adrian Luckman
Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Bryn Hubbard
Centre for Glaciology, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
Bernd Kulessa
Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
David Ashmore
School of Environmental Science, Roxby Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZT, UK
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Martin O'Leary
Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Adam Booth
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Heidi Sevestre
School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, College Gate, St Andrews, KY16 9AJ, UK
Daniel McGrath
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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Short summary
Five 90 m boreholes drilled into an Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf show units of ice that are denser than expected and must have formed from refrozen surface melt which has been buried and transported downstream. We used surface flow speeds and snow accumulation rates to work out where and when these units formed. Results show that, as well as recent surface melt, a period of strong melt occurred during the 18th century. Surface melt is thought to be a factor in causing recent ice-shelf break-up.
Five 90 m boreholes drilled into an Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf show units of ice that are...
