{"id":667,"date":"2009-04-06T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T14:50:35","slug":"wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkins ice shelf collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since people are wanting to talk about the latest events on the Antarctic Peninsula, this is a post for that discussion. <\/p>\n

The imagery from ESA (animation here<\/a>) tells the recent story quite clearly – the last sliver of ice between the main Wilkins ice shelf and Charcot Island is currently collapsing in a very interesting way (from a materials science point of view). For some of the history of the collapse, see our previous post<\/a>. This is the tenth major ice shelf to collapse in recent times. <\/p>\n

Maybe we can get some updates and discussion of potential implications from the people working on this in the comments….?<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since people are wanting to talk about the latest events on the Antarctic Peninsula, this is a post for that discussion. The imagery from ESA (animation here) tells the recent story quite clearly – the last sliver of ice between the main Wilkins ice shelf and Charcot Island is currently collapsing in a very interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arctic-and-antarctic","category-climate-science","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t