video: Surface wind causes warm water to upwell at the continental shelf break, the warm water melts Totten Ice Shelf from below, and the glacier responds by speeding up. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 01 November 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.A. Greene at University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Wind causes Totten Ice Shelf melt and acceleration." view more
Credit: [Credit: Chad A. Greene, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, 2017]