Distinct patterns of seasonal Greenland glacier velocity

T Moon, I Joughin, B Smith… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Predicting Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss due to ice dynamics requires a complete
understanding of spatiotemporal velocity fluctuations and related control mechanisms. We …

Land ice freshwater budget of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans: 1. Data, methods, and results

JL Bamber, AJ Tedstone, MD King… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The freshwater budget of the Arctic and sub‐polar North Atlantic Oceans has been changing
due, primarily, to increased river runoff, declining sea ice and enhanced melting of Arctic …

Subsurface ocean warming preceded Heinrich Events

L Max, D Nürnberg, CM Chiessi, MM Lenz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the global environmental impact of Laurentide Ice-Sheet destabilizations on glacial
climate during Heinrich Events is well-documented, the mechanism driving these ice-sheet …

Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A new international ocean observing system

M Susan Lozier, S Bacon, AS Bower… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
For decades oceanographers have understood the Atlantic meridional overturning
circulation (AMOC) to be primarily driven by changes in the production of deep-water …

Vertical redistribution of principle water masses on the Northeast Greenland Shelf

CVB Gjelstrup, MK Sejr, L de Steur… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Northeast Greenland shelf (NEGS) is a recipient of Polar Water (PW) from the
Arctic Ocean, Greenland Ice Sheet melt, and Atlantic Water (AW). Here, we compile …

Interruption of two decades of Jakobshavn Isbrae acceleration and thinning as regional ocean cools

A Khazendar, IG Fenty, D Carroll, A Gardner… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Jakobshavn Isbrae has been the single largest source of mass loss from the Greenland Ice
Sheet over the last 20 years. During that time, it has been retreating, accelerating and …

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 …

A global, high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and ocean bathymetry

J Schaffer, R Timmermann, JE Arndt… - Earth System …, 2016 - essd.copernicus.org
The ocean plays an important role in modulating the mass balance of the polar ice sheets by
interacting with the ice shelves in Antarctica and with the marine-terminating outlet glaciers …

Supplement: State of the Climate in 2013 supplemental figures

J Blunden, DS Arndt - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2014 - JSTOR
The following graphics are supplemental to Chapter 2 (Global Climate). In most cases, a
particular graphic is analagous to one provided in the chapter, but employs an alternate …

The dynamics of Greenland's glacial fjords and their role in climate

F Straneo, C Cenedese - Annual review of marine science, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has sparked interest in its glacial fjords for
two main reasons: Increased submarine melting of glaciers terminating in fjords is a …