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 …

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 …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

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 …

An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

SSR Jamieson, N Ross, GJG Paxman, FJ Clubb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has its origins ca. 34 million years ago. Since
then, the impact of climate change and past fluctuations in the EAIS margin has been …

Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

DJ Wilson, RA Bertram, EF Needham, T van de Flierdt… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role
of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level …

Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

A high‐end estimate of sea level rise for practitioners

RSW van de Wal, RJ Nicholls, D Behar… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sea level rise (SLR) is a long‐lasting consequence of climate change because global
anthropogenic warming takes centuries to millennia to equilibrate for the deep ocean and …

Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Last Interglaciation and implications for future change

NR Golledge, PU Clark, F He, A Dutton… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) response to past warming consistent with the 1.5–2° C
“safe limit” of the United Nations Paris Agreement is currently not well known. Empirical …

Ancient sea level

KG Miller, WJ Schmelz, JV Browning, RE Kopp… - Oceanography, 2020 - JSTOR
Studies of ancient sea levels provide insights into the mechanisms and rates of sea level
changes due to tectonic processes (eg, ocean crust production) and climatic variations (eg …