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 …

Atmosphere‐ocean‐ice interactions in the Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica

J Turner, A Orr, GH Gudmundsson… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over recent decades outlet glaciers of the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), West
Antarctica, have accelerated, thinned, and retreated, and are now contributing …

Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017

E Rignot, J Mouginot, B Scheuchl… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We use updated drainage inventory, ice thickness, and ice velocity data to calculate the
grounding line ice discharge of 176 basins draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1979 to …

Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

HD Pritchard, SRM Ligtenberg, HA Fricker… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of global sea-level rise requires that we understand the cause of recent,
widespread and intensifying, glacier acceleration along Antarctic ice-sheet coastal margins …

West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea driven by decadal oceanic variability

A Jenkins, D Shoosmith, P Dutrieux, S Jacobs… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mass loss from the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has increased in
recent decades, suggestive of sustained ocean forcing or an ongoing, possibly unstable …

Strong sensitivity of Pine Island ice-shelf melting to climatic variability

P Dutrieux, J De Rydt, A Jenkins, PR Holland, HK Ha… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Pine Island Glacier has thinned and accelerated over recent decades, significantly
contributing to global sea-level rise. Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to …

Spiraling pathways of global deep waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean

V Tamsitt, HF Drake, AK Morrison, LD Talley… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Upwelling of global deep waters to the sea surface in the Southern Ocean closes the global
overturning circulation and is fundamentally important for oceanic uptake of carbon and …

Decadal ocean forcing and Antarctic ice sheet response: Lessons from the Amundsen Sea

A Jenkins, P Dutrieux, S Jacobs, EJ Steig… - Oceanography, 2016 - JSTOR
Mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is driven by changes at the marine margins. In the
Amundsen Sea, thinning of the ice shelves has allowed the outlet glaciers to accelerate and …

Rapid subsurface warming and circulation changes of Antarctic coastal waters by poleward shifting winds

P Spence, SM Griffies, MH England… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The southern hemisphere westerly winds have been strengthening and shifting poleward
since the 1950s. This wind trend is projected to persist under continued anthropogenic …

Response of Pacific-sector Antarctic ice shelves to the El Niño/Southern oscillation

FS Paolo, L Padman, HA Fricker, S Adusumilli… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Satellite observations over the past two decades have revealed increasing loss of grounded
ice in West Antarctica, associated with floating ice shelves that have been thinning. Thinning …