The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets under 1.5 C global warming

F Pattyn, C Ritz, E Hanna, X Asay-Davis… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Even if anthropogenic warming were constrained to less than 2° C above pre-industrial, the
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to lose mass this century, with rates similar …

Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

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 …

Variable temperature thresholds of melt pond formation on Antarctic ice shelves

JM van Wessem, MR van den Broeke… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
It has been argued that the− 5° C annual mean 2 m air temperature isotherm defines a limit
of ice shelf viability on the Antarctic Peninsula as melt ponding increases at higher …

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 …

Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5 C, 2 C, and 4 C of future warming

E Gilbert, C Kittel - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The future surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctic ice shelves has not been constrained
with models of sufficient resolution and complexity. Here, we force the high‐resolution …

West Antarctic surface melt triggered by atmospheric rivers

JD Wille, V Favier, A Dufour, IV Gorodetskaya… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent major melting events in West Antarctica have raised concerns about a potential
hydrofracturing and ice shelf instability. These events often share common forcings of …

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 …

CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten Years of Actively Observing the Earth System

G Stephens, D Winker, J Pelon… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
One of the most successful demonstrations of an integrated approach to observe Earth from
multiple perspectives is the A-Train satellite constellation. The science enabled by this …

Polar climate change as manifest in atmospheric circulation

JA Screen, TJ Bracegirdle, I Simmonds - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Dynamic manifestations of climate change, ie those related to
circulation, are less well understood than are thermodynamic, or temperature-related …