Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

  • Jonathan D. Wille,
  • Vincent Favier,
  • Nicolas C. Jourdain,
  • Christoph Kittel,
  • Jenny V. Turton,
  • Cécile Agosta,
  • Irina V. Gorodetskaya,
  • Ghislain Picard,
  • Francis Codron,
  • Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos,
  • Charles Amory,
  • Xavier Fettweis,
  • Juliette Blanchet,
  • Vincent Jomelli,
  • Antoine Berchet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00422-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The most intense atmospheric rivers to hit the Antarctic Peninsula induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea ice disintegration or swell that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability, suggest analyses of observations and regional climate model simulations.