Ringed by Fractures (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Ringed by Fractures

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Existing fracture systems within Antarctica's coastal ice shelves (white) predicted by a machine-learning model. Melt water has reached very few of them, but this could change rapidly if the air warms.

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Adapted from Lai et al., Nature 2020

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