The Southern Annular Mode: variability, trends, and climate impacts across the Southern Hemisphere

RL Fogt, GJ Marshall - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the leading mode of extratropical Southern
Hemisphere climate variability, associated with changes in the strength and position of the …

Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes

B Smith, HA Fricker, AS Gardner, B Medley, J Nilsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Quantifying changes in Earth's ice sheets and identifying the climate drivers are central to
improving sea level projections. We provide unified estimates of grounded and floating ice …

Antarctic atmospheric river climatology and precipitation impacts

JD Wille, V Favier, IV Gorodetskaya… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is sensitive to short‐term extreme meteorological events that
can leave long‐term impacts on the continent's surface mass balance (SMB). We investigate …

Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet

C Kittel, C Amory, C Agosta, NC Jourdain… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The future surface mass balance (SMB) will influence the ice dynamics and the contribution
of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to the sea-level rise. Most of recent Antarctic SMB projections …

The uncertain future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

F Pattyn, M Morlighem - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating pace, and ice loss will likely
continue over the coming decades and centuries. Some regions of the ice sheet may reach …

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 …

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 …

Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2)

A Levermann, R Winkelmann, T Albrecht… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
The sea level contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet constitutes a large uncertainty in future
sea level projections. Here we apply a linear response theory approach to 16 state-of-the-art …