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Journey of the A68A iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf at the Antarctic Peninsula, across the Weddell Sea, through the deep ocean of Scotia Sea and approaching South Georgia at the end of its lifetime. The warming ocean conditions led to the thinning and shrinking of the berg. Elevation and ocean depth are based on IBCSO and GEBCO data (Arndt et al., 2013; GEBCO Compilation Group, 2019) and ocean temperature is derived from the World Ocean Atlas (WOA, Boyer et al., 2018). Iceberg positions and length are taken from the Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database (Budge and Long, 2018) and iceberg thickness is calculated from satellite altimetry data.
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