Monitoring Earth's climate variables with satellite laser altimetry

LA Magruder, SL Farrell, A Neuenschwander… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Satellite laser altimetry measures accurate elevations of the Earth's surface and precise
changes with time, monitoring key climate variables. These observations have transformed …

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

KR Clem, MN Raphael, S Adusumilli… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2021
annual report and is available from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0078.1. Compiled …

Measurement of Ice Shelf Rift Width with ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry: Automation, Validation, and the behavior of Halloween Crack, Brunt Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

A Morris, BP Lipovsky, CC Walker… - The Cryosphere …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice shelves influence the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by restricting the flow of ice
across the grounding zone. Their ability to restrict ice flow is sensitive to changes in their …

Atmospheric circulation and surface observations [in" State of the Climate in 2021"]

KR Clem, MN Raphael, S Adusumilli… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - nora.nerc.ac.uk
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2021
annual report and is available from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0078.1. Compiled …

Calving of Ross Ice Shelf from wave erosion and hydrostatic stresses

NB Sartore, TJW Wagner, MR Siegfried… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Ice shelf calving constitutes roughly half of the total mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet.
Although much attention is paid to calving of giant tabular icebergs, these events are …

The Multi-decadal Collapse of East Antarctica's Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf

C Walker, J Millstein, B Miles, S Cook, A Fraser… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Antarctica is losing net mass to the ocean; most of this loss has occurred in West Antarctica
and the Antarctic Peninsula, which together hold~ 5.5 m of sea level rise (SLR) potential …