Antarctic extreme events

MJ Siegert, MJ Bentley, A Atkinson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence that fossil-fuel burning, and consequential global heating of
1.1° C to date, has led to the increased occurrence and severity of extreme environmental …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era

AGC Graham, A Wåhlin, KA Hogan, FO Nitsche… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the recent history of Thwaites Glacier, and the processes controlling its
ongoing retreat, is key to projecting Antarctic contributions to future sea-level rise. Of …

Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica

P Milillo, E Rignot, P Rizzoli, B Scheuchl… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Pope, Smith and Kohler glaciers, in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West
Antarctica, have experienced enhanced ocean-induced ice-shelf melt, glacier acceleration …

Twenty-first century sea-level rise could exceed IPCC projections for strong-warming futures

M Siegert, RB Alley, E Rignot, J Englander, R Corell - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
While twentieth century sea-level rise was dominated by thermal expansion of ocean water,
mass loss from glaciers and ice sheets is now a larger annual contributor. There is …

Parallel photoelectron storage and visual preprocessing based on nanowire defect engineering for image degradation

Z Li, Y Zheng, L Li, L Liu, Z Lou… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The image degradation owing to the absorption and scattering of optical propagation
medium makes the non‐visualization and anamorphose in real image. The complex …

Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

Can solid surface energy be a predictor of ice nucleation ability?

S Qin, Y Jin, F Yin, Z Wang, G Bai - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface energy is one of the most important properties of materials that dictate many
behaviors such as the spreading of water and ice nucleation. It is commonly thought that low …

[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 …