Holocene glacier fluctuations

ON Solomina, RS Bradley, DA Hodgson… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
A global overview of glacier advances and retreats (grouped by regions and by millennia)
for the Holocene is compiled from previous studies. The reconstructions of glacier …

North Atlantic warming and the retreat of Greenland's outlet glaciers

F Straneo, P Heimbach - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet quadrupled over the past two decades, contributing
a quarter of the observed global sea-level rise. Increased submarine melting is thought to …

Geometric controls on tidewater glacier retreat in central western Greenland

GA Catania, LA Stearns, DA Sutherland… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Glacier terminus changes are one of the hallmarks of worldwide glacier change, and thus,
there is significant focus on the controls and limits to retreat in the literature. Here we use the …

Where glaciers meet water: Subaqueous melt and its relevance to glaciers in various settings

M Truffer, RJ Motyka - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Glacier change is ubiquitous, but the fastest and largest magnitude changes occur in
glaciers that terminate in water. This includes the most rapidly retreating glaciers, and also …

Ocean tide influences on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

L Padman, MR Siegfried, HA Fricker - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean tides are the main source of high‐frequency variability in the vertical and horizontal
motion of ice sheets near their marine margins. Floating ice shelves, which occupy about …

Surface melt dominates Alaska glacier mass balance

CF Larsen, E Burgess, AA Arendt… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain glaciers comprise a small and widely distributed fraction of the world's terrestrial
ice, yet their rapid losses presently drive a large percentage of the cryosphere's contribution …

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 …

Challenges to understanding the dynamic response of Greenland's marine terminating glaciers to oceanic and atmospheric forcing

F Straneo, P Heimbach, O Sergienko… - Bulletin of the …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
The recent retreat and speedup of outlet glaciers, as well as enhanced surface melting
around the ice sheet margin, have increased Greenland's contribution to sea level rise to …

Icefield-to-ocean linkages across the northern Pacific coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem

S O'Neel, E Hood, AL Bidlack, SW Fleming… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Rates of glacier mass loss in the northern Pacific coastal temperate rainforest (PCTR) are
among the highest on Earth, and changes in glacier volume and extent will affect the flow …

Rapid submarine melting driven by subglacial discharge, LeConte Glacier, Alaska

RJ Motyka, WP Dryer, J Amundson… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We show that subglacial freshwater discharge is the principal process driving high rates of
submarine melting at tidewater glaciers. This buoyant discharge draws in warm seawater …