Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet

JA MacGregor, MA Fahnestock… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Several decades of ice‐penetrating radar surveys of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
have observed numerous widespread internal reflections. Analysis of this radiostratigraphy …

Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

F Gillet-Chaulet, O Gagliardini, H Seddik… - The …, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
Over the last two decades, the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass at an
increasing rate, enhancing its contribution to sea-level rise (SLR). The recent increases in …

[HTML][HTML] Complex Greenland outlet glacier flow captured

A Aschwanden, MA Fahnestock, M Truffer - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate due to increased
surface melt and flow acceleration in outlet glaciers. Quantifying future dynamic …

Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers–Progress since AR5 and challenges

E Hanna, F Pattyn, F Navarro, V Favier, H Goelzer… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research shows increasing decadal ice mass losses from the Greenland and
Antarctic Ice Sheets and more generally from glaciers worldwide in the light of continued …

The use of GPS horizontals for loading studies, with applications to northern California and southeast Greenland

J Wahr, SA Khan, T van Dam, L Liu… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We describe how GPS measurements of horizontal crustal motion can be used to augment
vertical crustal motion measurements, to improve and extend GPS studies of surface …

[HTML][HTML] 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
Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating
Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society …

Effect of near‐terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates

DA Slater, PW Nienow, TR Cowton… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine melting of Greenlandic tidewater glacier termini is proposed as a possible
mechanism driving their recent thinning and retreat. We use a general circulation model …

Seasonal to decadal scale variations in the surface velocity of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland: Observation and model‐based analysis

I Joughin, BE Smith, IM Howat… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Using new data, we build upon the nearly two‐decade long record of observations from
Jakobshavn Isbrae to investigate the processes driving its dynamic evolution. While winter …

Greenland mass trends from airborne and satellite altimetry during 2011–2020

SA Khan, JL Bamber, E Rignot, V Helm… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We use satellite and airborne altimetry to estimate annual mass changes of the Greenland
Ice Sheet. We estimate ice loss corresponding to a sea‐level rise of 6.9±0.4 mm from April …

Limits in detecting acceleration of ice sheet mass loss due to climate variability

B Wouters, JL Bamber, MR Van den Broeke… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been reported to be losing mass at
accelerating rates,. If sustained, this accelerating mass loss will result in a global mean sea …