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 …

Developments in simulating and parameterizing interactions between the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic ice sheet

XS Asay-Davis, NC Jourdain, Y Nakayama - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
Recent advances in both ocean modeling and melt parameterization in ice-sheet models
point the way toward coupled ice sheet–ocean modeling, which is needed to quantify …

Recent irreversible retreat phase of Pine Island Glacier

B Reed, JAM Green, A Jenkins… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Pine Island Glacier (PIG), a part of the West Antarctic marine ice sheet, has recently
undergone substantial changes including speed up, retreat and thinning. Theoretical …

Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

CT Wild, KE Alley, A Muto, M Truffer, TA Scambos… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf buttresses a significant portion of Thwaites Glacier through
contact with a pinning point 40 km offshore of the present grounding line. Predicting future …

Sea-level response to melting of Antarctic ice shelves on multi-centennial timescales with the fast Elementary Thermomechanical Ice Sheet model (f. ETISh v1. 0)

F Pattyn - The Cryosphere, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
The magnitude of the Antarctic ice sheet's contribution to global sea-level rise is dominated
by the potential of its marine sectors to become unstable and collapse as a response to …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean–ice-sheet coupled model NEMO (v3. 6)–Elmer/Ice (v8. 3)

L Favier, NC Jourdain, A Jenkins… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Oceanic melting beneath ice shelves is the main driver of the current mass loss of the
Antarctic ice sheet and is mostly parameterised in stand-alone ice-sheet modelling …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing

KA Hogan, RD Larter, AGC Graham, R Arthern… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The geometry of the sea floor immediately beyond Antarctica's marine-terminating glaciers is
a fundamental control on warm-water routing, but it also describes former topographic …

Modeling the response of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and Zachariae Isstrøm glaciers, Greenland, to ocean forcing over the next century

Y Choi, M Morlighem, E Rignot… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have shown that the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet region has been
undergoing significant acceleration and dynamic thinning since 2010, and these changes …

Progress in numerical modeling of Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics

F Pattyn, L Favier, S Sun, G Durand - Current climate change reports, 2017 - Springer
Numerical modeling of the Antarctic ice sheet has gone through a paradigm shift over the
last decade. While initially models focussed on long-time diffusive response to surface mass …

The Holocene retreat dynamics and stability of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland

M Jakobsson, KA Hogan, LA Mayer, A Mix… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Submarine glacial landforms in fjords are imprints of the dynamic behaviour of marine-
terminating glaciers and are informative about their most recent retreat phase. Here we use …