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Evolution of ice-shelf channels in Antarctic ice shelves
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Short summary
Floating ice shelves extend the continental ice of Antarctica seawards and mediate ice-ocean interactions. Many ice shelves are incised with channels where basal melting is enhanced. With data and modeling it is shown how the channel geometry depends on basal melting and along-flow advection (also for channels which are not freely floating), and how channel formation imprints the general flow pattern. This opens up the opportunity to map the channel formation from surface velocities only.
Floating ice shelves extend the continental ice of Antarctica seawards and mediate ice-ocean...