Persistent Surface River on Nansen Ice Shelf Drains Meltwater Preventing Collapse for Decades

Robin Elizabeth Bell1, Winnie Chu2, Jonathan Kingslake1, Indrani Das3, Marco Tedesco1, Kirsty J Tinto1, Christopher J Zappa4 and Massimo Frezzotti5, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)University of Roma 3, Rome, Italy