EXPERT REACTION: Huge Antarctic Larsen C iceberg breaks away
Last night it was reported that one of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica. The 1-trillion-tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km - more than twice the size of the ACT - calved away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and 12, scientists monitoring the shelf said. Below, Australian experts comment.
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Professor Nathan Bindoff is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Tasmania, Head, of the Oceans and Cryosphere Program at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science and leader of the Climate Futures program at the ACE CRC
Assistant Professor Duanne White is from the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra