Earth's ice imbalance

T Slater, IR Lawrence, IN Otosaka… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
We combine satellite observations and numerical models to show that Earth lost 28 trillion
tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017. Arctic sea ice (7.6 trillion tonnes), Antarctic ice …

Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world

I Joughin, RB Alley - Nature Geoscience, 2011 - nature.com
Ice sheets are expected to shrink in size as the world warms, which in turn will raise sea
level. The West Antarctic ice sheet is of particular concern, because it was probably much …

[图书][B] Glaciers and glaciation

D Benn, DJA Evans - 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation

FDW Christie, TJ Benham, CL Batchelor, W Rack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The disintegration of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen A and B ice shelves has been
attributed to atmosphere and ocean warming, and increased mass losses from the glaciers …

Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

HD Pritchard, RJ Arthern, DG Vaughan, LA Edwards - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Many glaciers along the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are accelerating
and, for this reason, contribute increasingly to global sea-level rise,,,,,,. Globally, ice losses …

Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica

TA Scambos, JA Bohlander… - Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Ice velocities derived from five Landsat 7 images acquired between January 2000 and
February 2003 show a two‐to six‐fold increase in centerline speed of four glaciers flowing …

Retreating glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past half-century

AJ Cook, AJ Fox, DG Vaughan, JG Ferrigno - Science, 2005 - science.org
The continued retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula has been widely attributed to
recent atmospheric warming, but there is little published work describing changes in glacier …

Central tropical Pacific convection drives extreme high temperatures and surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

KR Clem, D Bozkurt, D Kennett, JC King… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf, eastern Antarctic Peninsula (AP) have
experienced dramatic break-up and collapse since the early 1990s due to strong …

Accelerated ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula following the collapse of Larsen B ice shelf

E Rignot, G Casassa, P Gogineni… - Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Interferometric synthetic‐aperture radar data collected by ERS‐1/2 and Radarsat‐1 satellites
show that Antarctic Peninsula glaciers sped up significantly following the collapse of Larsen …

Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years

AJ Cook, DG Vaughan - The cryosphere, 2010 - tc.copernicus.org
In recent decades, seven out of twelve ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) have
either retreated significantly or have been almost entirely lost. At least some of these retreats …