Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards…?- Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming?…

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?…

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?…

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the?…

Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf

SR Rintoul, A Silvano, B Pena-Molino, E Van Wijk…?- Science?…, 2016 - science.org
Mass loss from the West Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers has been linked to basal melt by
ocean heat flux. The Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, which buttresses a marine-based ice?…

[HTML][HTML] 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?…

[HTML][HTML] The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves

JA Smith, AGC Graham, AL Post…?- Nature?…, 2019 - nature.com
Reductions in the thickness and extent of Antarctic ice shelves are triggering increased
discharge of marine-terminating glaciers. While the impacts of recent changes are well?…

Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

SPS Gulick, AE Shevenell, A Montelli, R Fernandez…?- Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Antarctica's continental-scale ice sheets have evolved over the past 50 million years,,,.
However, the dearth of ice-proximal geological records,,, limits our understanding of past?…

New magnetic anomaly map of the Antarctic

AV Golynsky, F Ferraccioli, JK Hong…?- Geophysical?…, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The second generation Antarctic magnetic anomaly compilation for the region south of 60° S
includes some 3.5 million line‐km of aeromagnetic and marine magnetic data that more than?…

Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

CSM Turney, CJ Fogwill, NR Golledge…?- Proceedings of the?…, 2020 - pnas.org
The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly
uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last?…