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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3723-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3723-2022
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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

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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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