Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes

B Smith, HA Fricker, AS Gardner, B Medley, J Nilsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Quantifying changes in Earth's ice sheets and identifying the climate drivers are central to
improving sea level projections. We provide unified estimates of grounded and floating ice …

An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system

J Fyke, O Sergienko, M Löfverström… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ice sheet response to forced changes—such as that from anthropogenic climate forcing—is
closely regulated by two‐way interactions with other components of the Earth system. These …

Increased snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet mitigated twentieth-century sea-level rise

B Medley, ER Thomas - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in accumulated snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet have an immediate
and time-delayed impact on global mean sea level. The immediate impact is due to the …

Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet

C Kittel, C Amory, C Agosta, NC Jourdain… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The future surface mass balance (SMB) will influence the ice dynamics and the contribution
of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to the sea-level rise. Most of recent Antarctic SMB projections …

CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica

A Barthel, C Agosta, CM Little, T Hattermann… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The ice sheet model intercomparison project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) effort brings together the
ice sheet and climate modeling communities to gain understanding of the ice sheet …

Reconstructing atmospheric circulation and sea-ice extent in the West Antarctic over the past 200 years using data assimilation

Q Dalaiden, H Goosse, J Rezsöhazy, ER Thomas - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The West Antarctic climate has witnessed large changes during the second half of
the twentieth century including a strong and widespread continental warming, important …

Four decades of Antarctic surface elevation changes from multi-mission satellite altimetry

L Schröder, M Horwath, R Dietrich, V Helm… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
We developed a multi-mission satellite altimetry analysis over the Antarctic Ice Sheet which
comprises Seasat, Geosat, ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat, ICESat and CryoSat-2. After a consistent …

Exploration of Antarctic Ice Sheet 100-year contribution to sea level rise and associated model uncertainties using the ISSM framework

NJ Schlegel, H Seroussi, MP Schodlok… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Estimating the future evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is critical for improving future
sea level rise (SLR) projections. Numerical ice sheet models are invaluable tools for …

West Antarctic surface climate changes since the mid‐20th century driven by anthropogenic forcing

Q Dalaiden, AP Schurer… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Although the West Antarctic surface climate has experienced large changes over
the past decades with widespread surface warming, an overall increase in snow …