Sea ice can control Antarctic ice sheet stability, new research finds - EurekAlert

Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.

image: Young (blue) and landfast (smooth white) sea ice offshore of New Bedford Inlet, eastern Antarctic Peninsula, as imaged by the Operational Land Imager instrument onboard the USGS/NASA Landsat 8… [+5006 chars]

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