How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century

TA Scambos, RE Bell, RB Alley… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Identification, characteristics and comparison to modern ice sheets

M Margold, CR Stokes, CD Clark - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review and synthesis of ice streams in the Laurentide
Ice Sheet (LIS) based on a new map** inventory that includes previously hypothesised ice …

Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise in
recent decades,, and it is expected to continue to be so. Although increases in glacier flow …

Widespread seawater intrusions beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

E Rignot, E Ciracì, B Scheuchl, V Tolpekin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Warm water from the Southern Ocean has a dominant impact on the evolution of Antarctic
glaciers and in turn on their contribution to sea level rise. Using a continuous time series of …

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

IN Otosaka, A Shepherd, ER Ivins… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets have accelerated since the 1990s,
accounting for a significant increase in global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29 …

Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017

Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet is an important indicator of climate change and driver of sea-
level rise. Here we combine satellite observations of its changing volume, flow and …

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

JM Van Wessem, WJ Van De Berg, BPY Noël… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance
(SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional …

Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

FS Paolo, HA Fricker, L Padman - Science, 2015 - science.org
The floating ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic Ice Sheet restrain the grounded ice-sheet
flow. Thinning of an ice shelf reduces this effect, leading to an increase in ice discharge to …

Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

P Fretwell, HD Pritchard, DG Vaughan… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
We present Bedmap2, a new suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-
thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60° S. We …

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

E Rignot, J Mouginot, M Morlighem… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We measure the grounding line retreat of glaciers draining the Amundsen Sea sector of
West Antarctica using Earth Remote Sensing (ERS‐1/2) satellite radar interferometry from …