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Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2475-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2475-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
Research article
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24 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 24 Sep 2019

A simple stress-based cliff-calving law

Tanja Schlemm and Anders Levermann

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We provide a simple stress-based parameterization for cliff calving of ice sheets. According to the resulting increasing dependence of the calving rate on ice thickness, the parameterization might lead to a runaway ice loss in large parts of Greenland and Antarctica.
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