Constraining how much and how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will change in the
coming decades has recently been identified as the highest priority in Antarctic research …

Ice sheets are expected to shrink in size as the world warms, which in turn will raise sea
level. The West Antarctic ice sheet is of particular concern, because it was probably much …

Accurate prediction of global sea-level rise requires that we understand the cause of recent,
widespread and intensifying, glacier acceleration along Antarctic ice-sheet coastal margins …

Resting atop a deep marine basin, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has long been considered
prone to instability. Using a numerical model, we investigated the sensitivity of Thwaites …

Large parts of the Antarctic ice sheet lying on bedrock below sea level may be vulnerable to
marine-ice-sheet instability (MISI), a self-sustaining retreat of the grounding line triggered by …

Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has increased
owing to enhanced surface melting and ice discharge to the ocean,,,–. Whether continuing …

Over the past 40 years Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has thinned at an accelerating
rate,,, so that at present it is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica. In …

This chapter considers changes in global mean sea level, regional sea level, sea level
extremes, and waves. Confidence in projections of global mean sea level rise has increased …

We combine measurements of ice velocity from Landsat feature tracking and satellite radar
interferometry, and ice thickness from existing compilations to document 41 years of mass …

Pine Island Glacier has thinned and accelerated over recent decades, significantly
contributing to global sea-level rise. Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to …