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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038162
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- NERC [bas010014, bas0100028] Funding Source: UKRI
- STFC [ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas0100028, bas010014] Funding Source: researchfish
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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It is argued that Larsen Ice Shelf contains marine ice formed by oceanic freezing and other mechanisms. Missing basal returns in airborne radar soundings and observations of a smooth and healed surface coincide downstream of regions where an ocean model predicts freezing. Visible imagery suggests that marine ice currently stabilizes Larsen C Ice Shelf and implicates failure of marine flow bands in the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf collapse. Ocean modeling indicates that any regime change towards the incursion of warmer Modified Weddell Deep Water into the Larsen C cavity could curtail basal freezing and its stabilizing influence. Citation: Holland, P. R., H. F. J. Corr, D. G. Vaughan, A. Jenkins, and P. Skvarca (2009), Marine ice in Larsen Ice Shelf, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L11604, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038162.
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