Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

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 …

Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line

BE Schmidt, P Washam, PED Davis, KW Nicholls… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thwaites Glacier represents 15% of the ice discharge from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and
influences a wider catchment,–. Because it is grounded below sea level,, Thwaites Glacier is …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

[HTML][HTML] Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone

PED Davis, KW Nicholls, DM Holland, BE Schmidt… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thwaites Glacier is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems in Antarctica 1, 2, 3.
Much of the ice sheet within the catchment of Thwaites Glacier is grounded below sea level …

Regularized Coulomb friction laws for ice sheet sliding: Application to Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

I Joughin, BE Smith, CG Schoof - Geophysical research letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The choice of the best basal friction law to use in ice‐sheet models remains a source of
uncertainty in projections of sea level. The parameters in commonly used friction laws can …

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 …

Strong ocean melting feedback during the recent retreat of Thwaites Glacier

PR Holland, SL Bevan… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating ice loss from Thwaites Glacier is contributing approximately 5% of global sea‐
level rise, and could add tens of centimeters to sea level over the coming centuries. We use …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent, extensive channelized drainage modeled beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

AO Hager, MJ Hoffman, SF Price… - The Cryosphere, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Subglacial hydrology is a leading control on basal friction and the dynamics of glaciers and
ice sheets. At low discharge, subglacial water flows through high-pressure, sheet-like …

Illuminating active subglacial lake processes with ICESat‐2 laser altimetry

MR Siegfried, HA Fricker - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctica's basal water system contains more than 130 active lakes, and its evolution
remains a major uncertainty in future ice sheet dynamics. Most of our current understanding …