Response of a marine ice sheet to changes at the grounding line

Auteur :
VAN DER VEEN, C. J.

Description :
A numerical model was designed to study the stability of a marine ice sheet, and used to do some basic experiments. The ice-shelf/ice-sheet interaction enters through the flow law in which the longitudinal stress is also taken into account. An attempt is made to simulate a whole cycle of growth and retreat of a marine ice sheet. The question as to what might happen to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the near future where a climatic warming can be expected as a result of the CO effect, seems to be open for discussion again. From the results presented in this paper one can infer that a collapse, caused by increased melting on the ice shelves, is not very likely.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Quaternary research New York, 1985, vol. 24, n°. 3, p. 257-267, Références bibliographiques : 20 réf.

Date :
1985