Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

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 …

Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia

A Dehecq, N Gourmelen, AS Gardner, F Brun… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Glaciers in High Mountain Asia have experienced heterogeneous rates of loss
since the 1970s. Yet, the associated changes in ice flow that lead to mass redistribution and …

[PDF][PDF] Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet

JA MacGregor, MA Fahnestock… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The basal thermal state of an ice sheet (frozen or thawed) is an important control upon its
evolution, dynamics, and response to external forcings. However, this state can only be …

[HTML][HTML] High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control

TR Chudley, P Christoffersen, SH Doyle… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and structure from motion with multi-view stereo (SfM–
MVS) photogrammetry are increasingly common tools for geoscience applications, but final …

Rapid accelerations of Antarctic Peninsula outlet glaciers driven by surface melt

PA Tuckett, JC Ely, AJ Sole, SJ Livingstone… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Atmospheric warming is increasing surface melting across the Antarctic Peninsula, with
unknown impacts upon glacier dynamics at the ice-bed interface. Using high-resolution …

Seasonal to decadal variability in ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet

MD King, IM Howat, S Jeong, MJ Noh, B Wouters… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Rapid changes in thickness and velocity have been observed at many marine-terminating
glaciers in Greenland, impacting the volume of ice they export, or discharge, from the ice …

A high‐resolution record of Greenland mass balance

M McMillan, A Leeson, A Shepherd… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We map recent Greenland Ice Sheet elevation change at high spatial (5 km) and
temporal (monthly) resolution using CryoSat‐2 altimetry. After correcting for the impact of …