Petermann Ice Island Revisited
Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 12:56
in Earth & Climate
Petermann Ice Island Revisited Petermann Ice Island (2010) Calved on August 05 2010. The calving had been anticipated for some time and had been predicted to occur in summer 2010 by a number of people, including myself. The actual calving event was observed in near real-time images by a number of people - credits at the foot of this article. I give here some more background to my observations and my predictions of the Petermann calving event in a wider context of mechanical forces which may act on glaciers. Greenland under observation read more