How Does the Ocean Melt Antarctic Ice Shelves?

MG Rosevear, B Gayen, CA Vreugdenhil… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The present-day state and future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet depend on the rate at which the
ocean melts its fringing ice shelves. Ocean heat must cross many physical and dynamical …

[HTML][HTML] Climate intervention on a high-emissions pathway could delay but not prevent West Antarctic Ice Sheet demise

J Sutter, A Jones, TL Frölicher, C Wirths… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly discussed as a tool to reduce or avert
global warming and concomitantly the risk of ice-sheet collapse, as is considered possible …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level

A Aschwanden, TC Bartholomaus, DJ Brinkerhoff… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Accurately projecting mass loss from ice sheets is of critical societal importance. However,
despite recent improvements in ice sheet models, our analysis of a recent effort to project ice …

Increased warm water intrusions could cause mass loss in East Antarctica during the next 200 years

JR Jordan, BWJ Miles, GH Gudmundsson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is currently surrounded by relatively cool water,
but climatic shifts have the potential to increase basal melting via intrusions of warm …

An assessment of basal melt parameterisations for Antarctic ice shelves

C Burgard, NC Jourdain, R Reese, A Jenkins… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Ocean-induced ice-shelf melt is one of the largest uncertainty factors in the Antarctic
contribution to future sea-level rise. Several parameterisations exist, linking oceanic …

Calibrated mass loss predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet

A Aschwanden, DJ Brinkerhoff - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The potential contribution of ice sheets remains the largest source of uncertainty in
predicting sea‐level due to the limited predictive skill of numerical ice sheet models, yet …

[HTML][HTML] The predictive power of ice sheet models and the regional sensitivity of ice loss to basal sliding parameterisations: a case study of Pine Island and Thwaites …

JM Barnes, GH Gudmundsson - The Cryosphere, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice sheet models use a wide range of sliding laws to define a relationship between ice
velocity and basal drag, generally comprising some combination of a Weertman-style power …

Illustrative Multi‐Centennial Projections of Global Mean Sea‐Level Rise and Their Application

FE Turner, V Malagon Santos, TL Edwards… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We produce projections of global mean sea‐level rise to 2500 for low and medium
emissions scenarios (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways SSP1‐2.6 and SSP2‐4.5) relative to …

Ocean warming as a trigger for irreversible retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet

EA Hill, GH Gudmundsson, DM Chandler - Nature Climate Change, 2024 - nature.com
Warmer ocean conditions could impact future ice loss from Antarctica due to their ability to
thin and reduce the buttressing of laterally confined ice shelves. Previous studies highlight …

Probabilistic projections of the Amery Ice Shelf catchment, Antarctica, under conditions of high ice-shelf basal melt

S Jantre, MJ Hoffman, NM Urban, T Hillebrand… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Antarctica's Lambert Glacier drains about one-sixth of the ice from the East Antarctic Ice
Sheet and is considered stable due to the strong buttressing provided by the Amery Ice …