Recent studies suggest that Antarctica has the potential to contribute up to~ 15 m of sea-
level rise over the next few centuries. The evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is driven by a …

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 …

Accurate models of past Antarctic ice sheet behaviour require realistic reconstructions of the
evolution of bedrock topography. However, other than a preliminary attempt to reconstruct …

Antarctic and Southern Ocean science is vital to understanding natural variability, the
processes that govern global change and the role of humans in the Earth and climate …

Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a gradual warming event and
carbon cycle perturbation that occurred between 40.5 and 40.1 Ma. A number of …

Glacial cirques are armchair-shaped erosional hollows, typified by steep headwalls and,
often, overdeepened floors. They reflect former regions of glacier initiation, and their …

Abstract The West Antarctic Ice Sheet overlies the West Antarctic Rift System about which,
due to the comprehensive ice cover, we have only limited and sporadic knowledge of …

Reconstructions of Antarctic paleotopography for the late Eocene suggest that glacial
erosion and thermal subsidence have lowered West Antarctic elevations considerably since …

Climate variations cause ice sheets to retreat and advance, raising or lowering sea level by
metres to decametres. The basic relationship is unambiguous, but the timing, magnitude and …

The Antarctic continent reached its current polar location~ 83 Ma and became shrouded by
ice sheets~ 34 Ma, coincident with dramatic global cooling at the Eocene-Oligocene …