The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Fox, Adrian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7477-0671; Vaughan, David G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9065-0570. 2005 The retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology, 51 (175). 555-560. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043

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Abstract/Summary

In recent decades, several ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have diminished in size as a result of climate warming. Using aerial photographic, satellite and survey data we document a similar retreat of Jones Ice Shelf, which was another small ice shelf on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. This ice shelf was roughly stable between 1947 and 1969, but in the early 1970s it began to retreat and had completely disappeared by early 2003. Jones Ice Shelf has two ice fronts only a few kilometres apart and its retreat provides a unique opportunity to examine how different ice fronts retreat when subjected to similar climate forcing. We mapped the retreat of both the east and west ice fronts of Jones Ice Shelf and found that, although individual episodes of retreat may be related to particularly warm summers, the overall progress of retreat of the two ice fronts has been rather different. This suggests that in this case the course of retreat is controlled by the geometry of the embayment and location of pinning points as well as climatic events.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829043
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Well Found Laboratory BAS Programmes > Antarctic Science in the Global Context (2000-2005) > Global Interactions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
ISSN:	0022-1430
Additional Keywords:	Ice shelves, Climate change
NORA Subject Terms:	Glaciology
Date made live:	24 Dec 2007 11:57 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1785

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