Decadal trends in the properties of seawater adjacent to Antarctica are poorly known, and
the mechanisms responsible for such changes are uncertain. Antarctic ice sheet mass loss …

Water plays a crucial role in ice-sheet stability and the onset of ice streams. Subglacial lake
water moves between lakes and rapidly drains, causing catastrophic floods. The exact …

The mechanisms by which heat is delivered to Antarctic ice shelves are a major source of
uncertainty when assessing the response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate change. Direct …

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 …

Antarctic snowfall exhibits substantial variability over a range of time scales, with
consequent impacts on global sea level and the mass balance of the ice sheets. To assess …

The occurrence of surface melt in Antarctica has hitherto been associated with the austral
summer season, when the dominant source of melt energy is provided by solar radiation …

Increasing evidence for an elaborate subglacial drainage network underneath modern
Antarctic ice sheets suggests that basal meltwater has an important influence on ice stream …

Observations over the past decades show a rapid acceleration of several outlet glaciers in
Greenland and Antarctica. One of the largest changes is a sudden switch of Jakobshavn …

Totten Glacier, the primary outlet of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, has the largest thinning
rate in East Antarctica,. Thinning may be driven by enhanced basal melting due to ocean …

Antarctica contains most of Earth's fresh water stored in two large ice sheets. The more
stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet is larger and older, rests on higher topography, and hides …