Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

JM Jones, ST Gille, H Goosse, NJ Abram… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude
Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent …

Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

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 …

A validation of ERA5 reanalysis data in the Southern Antarctic Peninsula—Ellsworth land region, and its implications for ice core studies

D Tetzner, E Thomas, C Allen - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate reanalyses provide key information to calibrate proxy records in regions with scarce
direct observations. The climate reanalysis used to perform a proxy calibration should …

Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere

M Oliva, F Navarro, F Hrbáček, A Hernandéz… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is often described as a region with one of the largest
warming trends on Earth since the 1950s, based on the temperature trend of 0.54° C/decade …

Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates

CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Anthropocene as a potential new unit of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart
(which serves as the basis of the Geological Time Scale) is assessed in terms of the …

Sea level rise from West Antarctic mass loss significantly modified by large snowfall anomalies

BJ Davison, AE Hogg, R Rigby, S Veldhuijsen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mass loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is dominated by glaciers draining into the
Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), yet the impact of anomalous precipitation on the mass …

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 …

Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

ER Thomas, JM Van Wessem, J Roberts… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Here we present Antarctic snow accumulation variability at the regional scale over the past
1000 years. A total of 79 ice core snow accumulation records were gathered and assigned …

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 …