The observed acceleration of ice shelf basal melt rates throughout West Antarctica could
destabilize continental ice sheets and markedly increase global sea level. Explanations for …

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 …

Warm ocean waters drive rapid ice‐shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea. The ocean heat
transport toward the ice shelves is associated with the Amundsen Undercurrent, a near …

West Antarctica has experienced dramatic ice losses contributing to global sea-level rise in
recent decades, particularly from Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Although these ice …

Widespread ice shelf thinning has been recorded in the Amundsen Sea in recent decades,
driven by basal melting and intrusions of relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) …

Ice streams such as Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers which terminate at their ice shelves
in the eastern Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, are losing mass faster than most others …

Abstract The Pine Island and Thwaites Ice Shelves (PIIS/TIS) in the Amundsen Sea are
melting rapidly and impacting global sea levels. The thermocline depth (TD) variability, the …

The changing supply of warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) to the West Antarctic
continental shelf is responsible for the basal melting and thinning of the West Antarctic ice …

Intrusion of warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) is critical to heat transport onto
the continental shelf around Antarctica, with substantial impacts on basal melting of ice …

The ice shelves in the Bellingshausen Sea are melting and thinning rapidly due to modified
Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) intrusions carrying heat toward ice‐shelf cavities …