The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse

Laffin, Matthew K.; Zender, Charles S.; van Wessem, Melchior; Marinsek, Sebastián

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1369-2022

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1369-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1369-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Research article

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13 Apr 2022

Research article |

| 13 Apr 2022

The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse

Matthew K. Laffin, Charles S. Zender, Melchior van Wessem, and Sebastián Marinsek

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1369-2022-supplement

Data sets

ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) ECMWF https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5

Regional Atmospheric Climate Model 2 (RACMO2), version 2.3p2 (2.3p2) J. M. Van Wessem and M. K. Laffin https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3677642

Model code and software

Climatology and Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula Föhn Wind-Induced Melt Regime From 1979-2018 (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/) M. K. Laffin, C. S. Zender, S. Singh, J. M. Van Wessem, C. J. P. Smeets, and C. H. Reijmer https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033682

Short summary

The collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) occurred while...