Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent
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https://the-14.com/rain-is-coming-to-antarctica-heres-how-it-will-change-the-frozen-continent/
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✧ Larsen Ice Shelf ✧
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is named after Norwegian explorer Carl Anton Larsen, who sailed along the ice front in 1893. Composed of a series of shelves along the coast, named with letters from A to G, since the mid-1990...
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review
"atmospheric rivers induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea-ice disintegration, or large swells that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability. This was observed during the collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves during the summers of 1995 and 2002. 60% of calving events 2000–2020 were triggered by AR."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVGzHS38g10
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