High Basal Melt Rates and High Strain Rates Lead to More Fractured Ice
Ray H. Watkins,
Jeremy N. Bassis,
M. D. Thouless
et al.
Abstract:Ice shelves limit the flux of grounded ice into the ocean by buttressing the discharge of land‐based ice upstream. Ice shelf weakening and collapse can lead to decreased buttressing and observations increasingly show that some ice shelves have experienced increased melt and increased calving, with recent hypotheses suggesting that increased melt leads to increased fracturing. However, the specific processes that control this correlation are not yet understood, with mechanisms other than melt affecting fracturi… Show more
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