The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP)

S Sun, F Pattyn, EG Simon, T Albrecht… - Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Antarctica's ice shelves modulate the grounded ice flow, and weakening of ice shelves due
to climate forcing will decrease their 'buttressing'effect, causing a response in the grounded …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

[HTML][HTML] Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet

N Bochow, A Poltronieri, A Robinson, M Montoya… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) in response to anthropogenic global warming
poses a severe threat in terms of global sea-level rise (SLR). Modelling and palaeoclimate …

Ice-shelf retreat drives recent Pine Island Glacier speedup

I Joughin, D Shapero, B Smith, P Dutrieux… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Speedup of Pine Island Glacier over the past several decades has made it Antarctica's
largest contributor to sea-level rise. The past speedup is largely due to grounding-line …

Subglacial discharge accelerates future retreat of Denman and Scott Glaciers, East Antarctica

T Pelle, JS Greenbaum, CF Dow, A Jenkins… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ice shelf basal melting is the primary mechanism driving mass loss from the Antarctic Ice
Sheet, yet it is unknown how the localized melt enhancement from subglacial discharge will …

Future evolution of Greenland's marine‐terminating outlet glaciers

GA Catania, LA Stearns, TA Moon… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has increased over the last two decades in
response to changes in global climate, motivating the scientific community to question how …

Results of the third marine ice sheet model intercomparison project (MISMIP+)

SL Cornford, H Seroussi, XS Asay-Davis… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
We present the result of the third Marine Ice Sheet Intercomparison project, MISMIP+.
MISMIP+ is intended to be a test of ice flow models which include fast sliding marine ice …

Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

CT Wild, KE Alley, A Muto, M Truffer… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf continues to buttresses a significant portion of Thwaites
Glacier through contact with a pinning point 40 km offshore of the present grounding line …

Seasonal acceleration of Petermann Glacier, Greenland, from changes in subglacial hydrology

S Ehrenfeucht, M Morlighem, E Rignot… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Petermann Glacier is a major outlet glacier of northern Greenland that drains a marine‐
based basin vulnerable to destabilization from enhanced oceanic and atmospheric forcings …