Oceanic controls on the mass balance of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Vol. 117; no. C1
• Main Authors: Padman, Laurie, Costa, Daniel P., Dinniman, Michael S., Fricker, Helen A., Goebel, Michael E., Huckstadt, Luis A., Humbert, Angelika, Joughin, Ian, Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M., Scambos, Ted, van den Broeke, Michiel R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2012; American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Annual variations; Antarctic ice; Antarctic ice shelves; basal melting; Bellingshausen Sea; Climate change; Coastal processes; Cryosphere; Earth; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Geophysics; Glaciers; Ice; Ice calving; Ice shelves; Interannual variability; Land ice; Marine; Mass; Melting; Ocean temperature; Oceanography; Oceans; radar altimetry; Regional climates; Sea level; Wilkins Ice Shelf; polar regions; West Antarctica; Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula; glaciers; mass balance; accumulation; Regional scope; melting; ice; haloes; Perturbation; Interannual variation; coastal zone; instruments; ice shelves; depth; Thinning; Winter; islands; Ice shelf; temperature; melts; Ice calving; climate change

Several Antarctic Peninsula (AP) ice shelves have lost significant fractions of their volume over the past decades, coincident with rapid regional climate change. Wilkins Ice Shelf (WIS), on the western side of the AP, is the most recent, experiencing a sequence of large calving events in 2008 and 2...