Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica's Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf

CC Walker, JD Millstein, BWJ Miles, S Cook… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antarctica is currently losing net mass to the ocean primarily from West Antarctica and the
Antarctic Peninsula, which together hold~ 5.5 m of sea level rise potential. Yet, the East …

Southern Ocean warming and Antarctic ice shelf melting in conditions plausible by late 23rd century in a high-end scenario

P Mathiot, NC Jourdain - Ocean Science, 2023 - os.copernicus.org
How much Antarctic ice shelf basal melt rates can increase in response to global warming
remains an open question. Here we describe the response of the Southern Ocean and ice …

Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica

J De Rydt, K Naughten - The Cryosphere, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers along the Amundsen Sea coastline in West Antarctica are dynamically adjusting to
a change in ice-shelf mass balance that triggered their retreat and speed-up prior to the …

Meteoric water and glacial melt in the southeastern Amundsen Sea: a time series from 1994 to 2020

AN Hennig, DA Mucciarone, SS Jacobs… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice sheet mass loss from Antarctica is greatest in the Amundsen Sea sector, where “warm”
modified Circumpolar Deep Water moves onto the continental shelf and melts and thins the …

Evaluation of MITgcm-based ocean reanalyses for the Southern Ocean

Y Nakayama, A Malyarenko, H Zhang… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Global-and basin-scale ocean reanalyses are becoming easily accessible and are utilized
widely to study the Southern Ocean. However, such ocean reanalyses are optimized to …

Experimental design for the Marine Ice Sheet–Ocean Model Intercomparison Project–phase 2 (MISOMIP2)

J De Rydt, NC Jourdain, Y Nakayama… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Marine Ice Sheet–Ocean Model Intercomparison Project–phase 2 (MISOMIP2)
is a natural progression of previous and ongoing model intercomparison exercises that have …

Future freshwater fluxes from the Antarctic ice sheet

V Coulon, J De Rydt, T Gregov, Q Qin… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Surface freshening of the Southern Ocean driven by meltwater discharge from the Antarctic
ice sheet has been shown to influence global climate dynamics. However, most climate …

Determining the Freshwater Fluxes from Antarctica with Earth Observation Data, Models, and In Situ Measurements: Uncertainties, Knowledge Gaps, and Prospects …

R Mottram, M van den Broeke, A Meijers… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Workshop on Antarctic Ice Shelf Processes in Models and Earth Observation What: The
meeting brought together 25 scientists specializing in diverse fields related to Earth …

The case for a framework for UnderStanding Ice-Ocean iNteractions (FUSION) in the Antarctic-Southern Ocean system

FS McCormack, S Cook, DN Goldberg… - Elementa: Science of …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
We are in a period of rapidly accelerating change across the Antarctic continent and
Southern Ocean, with land ice loss leading to sea level rise and multiple other climate …

Elevation Change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its Peripheral Glaciers: 1992–2023

J Nilsson, AS Gardner - Earth System Science Data …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
The integration of data from multiple satellite altimetry missions, each offering unique
observational characteristics, has enabled us to discern both short-term variability and long …