Grant Award View - GA67193

The project aims to assess the susceptibility of the remaining Antarctic ice shelves to rapid and catastrophic disintegration, of the type that removed ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula over recent decades. The study is motivated by the project team’s recent Nature article that revealed a link between Antarctic Peninsula disintegrations and loss of sea buffers around the shelves, which allowed destructive ocean swells to impact the shelf fronts. Ice shelf susceptibilities will be assessed using a combination of the best available satellite and model data, and the most advanced mathematical models. The project findings will have profound implications for future projections of Antarctic Ice Sheet discharge into the Southern Ocean and the resulting global sea level rise.