‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth’s climate system

Keyphrases

• Earth's Climate System 100%
• Grounding Line 100%
• Marine Ice Sheets 100%
• Numerical Results 66%
• Steady State 66%
• Stochastic Variability 66%
• Power Law 33%
• Southern Ocean 33%
• Dynamic Behavior 33%
• Numerical Model 33%
• Basal Stress 33%
• Transient Behavior 33%
• Functional Dependency 33%
• Correlation Time 33%
• Stable Steady State 33%
• Internal Variability 33%
• Ice Sheet 33%
• Lateral Stress 33%
• Time-variant 33%
• Ocean Conditions 33%
• On Time Scales 33%
• Time-dependent Behavior 33%
• Basal Conditions 33%
• Melting Rate 33%
• Marine Ice Sheet Instability 33%
• Stochastic Correlation 33%
• Sliding Laws 33%
• Submarine Melting 33%
• Ice Sheet Dynamics 33%
• Grounding Line Retreat 33%
• Basal Shear Stress 33%
• Line Dynamics 33%

Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Ice Sheet 100%
• Grounding Line 66%
• Timescale 33%
• Southern Ocean 16%
• Power Law 16%
• Numerical Model 16%
• Time Dependent Behavior 16%