Thwaites

Sea ice may not be enough to support ice shelves; melting snow on surface ice doubles; Thwaites damage

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A study by Copernicus reports that the effect of sea ice (fast ice connected to land) as a supporting force against land ice is negligible. The study area was the Larsen B Ice Shelf, which has been collapsing since 2002 and is effectively gone after a major collapse in 2022. We observe the evacuation of … Read more

Doomsday Glacier’s ticking clock: Satellites reveal “powerful melt” beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

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SciTechDaily

A team led by glaciologists from UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water rising in a grounding zone extending several kilometers beneath the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The research, the subject of an article published in PNAS, will help climate modelers derive more accurate projections of sea … Read more