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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3723-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3723-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
 | 
20 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 20 Sep 2022

Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls

Francesca Baldacchino, Mathieu Morlighem, Nicholas R. Golledge, Huw Horgan, and Alena Malyarenko

Data sets

MEaSUREs BedMachine Antarctica M. Morlighem https://doi.org/10.5067/E1QL9HFQ7A8M

MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map E. Rignot, J. Mouginot, and B. Scheuchl https://doi.org/10.5067/D7GK8F5J8M8R

Data set: Yearly RACMO2.3p2 variables J. M/ van Wessem, M/ R. van den Broeke, and S. Lhermitte https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6602723

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Short summary
Understanding how the Ross Ice Shelf will evolve in a warming world is important to the future stability of Antarctica. It remains unclear what changes could drive the largest mass loss in the future and where places are most likely to trigger larger mass losses. Sensitivity maps are modelled showing that the RIS is sensitive to changes in environmental and glaciological controls at regions which are currently experiencing changes. These regions need to be monitored in a warming world.
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