Antarctic surface hydrology and impacts on ice-sheet mass balance

RE Bell, AF Banwell, LD Trusel, J Kingslake - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Melting is pervasive along the ice surrounding Antarctica. On the surface of the grounded ice
sheet and floating ice shelves, extensive networks of lakes, streams and rivers both store …

Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise

JE Box, A Hubbard, DB Bahr, WT Colgan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest sources of contemporary sea-level
rise (SLR). While process-based models place timescales on Greenland's deglaciation, their …

Recent advances in our understanding of the role of meltwater in the Greenland Ice Sheet system

PW Nienow, AJ Sole, DA Slater, TR Cowton - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review This review discusses the role that meltwater plays within
the Greenland ice sheet system. The ice sheet's hydrology is important because it affects …

Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model

X Fettweis, JE Box, C Agosta, C Amory, C Kittel… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
With the aim of studying the recent Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB)
decrease relative to the last century, we have forced the regional climate MAR (Modèle …

Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland

M Wood, E Rignot, I Fenty, L An, A Bjørk… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The retreat and acceleration of Greenland glaciers since the mid-1990s have been
attributed to the enhanced intrusion of warm Atlantic Waters (AW) into fjords, but this …

Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

LC Andrews, GA Catania, MJ Hoffman, JD Gulley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seasonal acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet is influenced by the dynamic response of
the subglacial hydrologic system to variability in meltwater delivery to the bed, via crevasses …

Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

G Lamarche-Gagnon, JL Wadham, B Sherwood Lollar… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Ice sheets are currently ignored in global methane budgets,. Although ice sheets have been
proposed to contain large reserves of methane that may contribute to a rise in atmospheric …

Decadal slowdown of a land-terminating sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet despite warming

AJ Tedstone, PW Nienow, N Gourmelen, A Dehecq… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Ice flow along land-terminating margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) varies
considerably in response to fluctuating inputs of surface meltwater to the bed of the ice …

Amplified melt and flow of the Greenland ice sheet driven by late-summer cyclonic rainfall

SH Doyle, A Hubbard, RSW Van De Wal, JE Box… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Intense rainfall events significantly affect Alpine and Alaskan glaciers through enhanced
melting, ice-flow acceleration and subglacial sediment erosion, yet their impact on the …

Effect of near‐terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates

DA Slater, PW Nienow, TR Cowton… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine melting of Greenlandic tidewater glacier termini is proposed as a possible
mechanism driving their recent thinning and retreat. We use a general circulation model …