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 …

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 …

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 …

Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

P Fretwell, HD Pritchard, DG Vaughan… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
We present Bedmap2, a new suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-
thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60° S. We …

Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability

VR Barletta, M Bevis, BE Smith, T Wilson, A Brown… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The marine portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment
(ASE) accounts for one-fourth of the cryospheric contribution to global sea-level rise and is …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructions of Antarctic topography since the Eocene–Oligocene boundary

GJG Paxman, SSR Jamieson, K Hochmuth… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate models of past Antarctic ice sheet behaviour require realistic reconstructions of the
evolution of bedrock topography. However, other than a preliminary attempt to reconstruct …

Dynamic thinning of glaciers on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula

B Wouters, A Martin-Español, V Helm, T Flament… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Growing evidence has demonstrated the importance of ice shelf buttressing on the inland
grounded ice, especially if it is resting on bedrock below sea level. Much of the Southern …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?

SHA van de Lagemaat, MLA Swart, B Vaes… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
During evolution of the South Sandwich subduction zone, which has consumed South
American Plate oceanic lithosphere, somehow continental crust of both the South American …

New magnetic anomaly map of the Antarctic

AV Golynsky, F Ferraccioli, JK Hong… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The second generation Antarctic magnetic anomaly compilation for the region south of 60° S
includes some 3.5 million line‐km of aeromagnetic and marine magnetic data that more than …

Inter-decadal climate variability induces differential ice response along Pacific-facing West Antarctica

FDW Christie, EJ Steig, N Gourmelen, SFB Tett… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
West Antarctica has experienced dramatic ice losses contributing to global sea-level rise in
recent decades, particularly from Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Although these ice …