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Detailed Reference Information |
Dupont, T.K. and Alley, R.B. (2005). Assessment of the importance of ice-shelf buttressing to ice-sheet flow. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL022024. issn: 0094-8276. |
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Reduction or loss of a restraining ice shelf will cause speed-up of flow from contiguous ice streams, contributing to sea-level rise, with greater changes from ice streams that are wider, have stickier beds, or have higher driving stress. Loss of buttressing offsetting half of the tendency for ice-stream/ice-shelf spreading for an ice stream similar to Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica is modeled to contribute at least 1 mm of sea-level rise over a few decades. These results come from a new, simple model that includes relevant stresses in a boundary-layer formulation, and allows rapid estimation of ice-shelf impacts for a wide range of configurations. |
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Keywords
Cryosphere, Ice sheets, Cryosphere, Ice streams, Cryosphere, Ice shelves, Cryosphere, Glaciology (1621, 1827, 1863), Global Change, Sea level change (1222, 1225, 4556) |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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