Spatial patterning and persistence of meltwater on ice shelves and the implications for ice shelf collapse

Alexander Robel, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Douglas R MacAyeal, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States, Victor C Tsai, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and David E Shean, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States