Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Glacial isostatic adjustment modelling: historical perspectives, recent advances, and future directions

PL Whitehouse - Earth surface dynamics, 2018 - esurf.copernicus.org
Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) describes the response of the solid Earth, the gravitational
field, and the oceans to the growth and decay of the global ice sheets. A commonly studied …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

[HTML][HTML] Global environmental consequences of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt

NR Golledge, ED Keller, N Gomez, KA Naughten… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Government policies currently commit us to surface warming of three to four degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels by 2100, which will lead to enhanced ice-sheet melt. Ice-sheet …

Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States

WV Sweet, RE Kopp, CP Weaver, J Obeysekera… - 2017 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task
Force, jointly convened by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the …

Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years

AS Gardner, G Moholdt, T Scambos, M Fahnstock… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice discharge from large ice sheets plays a direct role in determining rates of sea-level rise.
We map present-day Antarctic-wide surface velocities using Landsat 7 and 8 imagery …

Global sea-level budget 1993-present

A Cazenave, B Meyssignac, M Ablain, M Balmaseda… - 2018 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Global mean sea level is an integral of changes occurring in the climate system in response
to unforced climate variability as well as natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Its …

GIA model statistics for GRACE hydrology, cryosphere, and ocean science

L Caron, ER Ivins, E Larour, S Adhikari… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a new analysis of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) with the goal of assembling
the model uncertainty statistics required for rigorously extracting trends in surface mass from …

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 …

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 …