Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1347-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1347-2018
Research article
 | 
13 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 13 Apr 2018

Recent dynamic changes on Fleming Glacier after the disintegration of Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Peter Friedl, Thorsten C. Seehaus, Anja Wendt, Matthias H. Braun, and Kathrin Höppner

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Peter Friedl on behalf of the Authors (14 Dec 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Dec 2017) by Bert Wouters
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (08 Jan 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (23 Jan 2018)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (23 Jan 2018) by Bert Wouters
AR by Peter Friedl on behalf of the Authors (22 Feb 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Mar 2018) by Bert Wouters
Download
Short summary
Fleming Glacier is the biggest tributary glacier of the former Wordie Ice Shelf. Radar satellite data and airborne ice elevation measurements show that the glacier accelerated by ~27 % between 2008–2011 and that ice thinning increased by ~70 %. This was likely a response to a two-phase ungrounding of the glacier tongue between 2008 and 2011, which was mainly triggered by increased basal melt during two strong upwelling events of warm circumpolar deep water.