Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands

K Matsuoka, A Skoglund, G Roth, J de Pomereu… - … Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Quantarctica (https://www. npolar. no/quantarctica) is a geospatial data package,
analysis environment, and visualization platform for the Antarctic Continent, Southern Ocean …

[HTML][HTML] Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone

PED Davis, KW Nicholls, DM Holland, BE Schmidt… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thwaites Glacier is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems in Antarctica 1, 2, 3.
Much of the ice sheet within the catchment of Thwaites Glacier is grounded below sea level …

Meltwater produced by wind–albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf

JTM Lenaerts, S Lhermitte, R Drews… - Nature climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Surface melt and subsequent firn air depletion can ultimately lead to disintegration of
Antarctic ice shelves, causing grounded glaciers to accelerate and sea level to rise. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

JR Hawkings, JL Wadham, M Tranter… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets cover~\n10% of global land surface, but
are rarely considered as active components of the global iron cycle. The ocean waters …

How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century

TA Scambos, RE Bell, RB Alley… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Constraining how much and how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will change in the
coming decades has recently been identified as the highest priority in Antarctic research …

Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Antarctic basal environment shaped by high-pressure flow through a subglacial river system

CF Dow, N Ross, H Jeofry, K Siu, MJ Siegert - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
The stability of ice sheets and their contributions to sea level are modulated by high-
pressure water that lubricates the base of the ice, facilitating rapid flow into the ocean. In …

Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …