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 …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution

K Matsuoka, RCA Hindmarsh, G Moholdt… - Earth-science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Locally grounded features in ice shelves, called ice rises and rumples, play a key role
buttressing discharge from the Antarctic Ice Sheet and regulating its contribution to sea level …

Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability

L Favier, G Durand, SL Cornford… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Over the past 40 years Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has thinned at an accelerating
rate,,, so that at present it is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica. In …

Continental scale, high order, high spatial resolution, ice sheet modeling using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

E Larour, H Seroussi, M Morlighem… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ice flow models used to project the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica
usually rely on the Shallow Ice Approximation (SIA) and the Shallow‐Shelf Approximation …

[图书][B] Dynamics of ice sheets and glaciers

R Greve, H Blatter - 2009 - books.google.com
Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and
thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of general continuum …

The stability of grounding lines on retrograde slopes

GH Gudmundsson, J Krug, G Durand, L Favier… - The …, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
The stability of marine ice sheets grounded on beds that slope upwards in the overall
direction of flow is investigated numerically in two horizontal dimensions. We give examples …

Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

F Pattyn, L Perichon, G Durand, L Favier… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Predictions of marine ice-sheet behaviour require models able to simulate grounding-line
migration. We present results of an intercomparison experiment for plan-view marine ice …

Results of the marine ice sheet model intercomparison project, MISMIP

F Pattyn, C Schoof, L Perichon… - The Cryosphere …, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
Predictions of marine ice-sheet behaviour require models that are able to robustly simulate
grounding line migration. We present results of an intercomparison exercise for marine ice …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamically and observationally constrained estimates of water-mass distributions and ages in the global ocean

T DeVries, F Primeau - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Dynamically and Observationally Constrained Estimates of Water-Mass Distributions and Ages
in the Global Ocean in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 41 Issue 12 (2011) Jump to …

Marine ice-sheet profiles and stability under Coulomb basal conditions

VC Tsai, AL Stewart, AF Thompson - Journal of Glaciology, 2015 - cambridge.org
The behavior of marine-terminating ice sheets, such as the West Antarctic ice sheet, is of
interest due to the possibility of rapid grounding-line retreat and consequent catastrophic …