Pine Island Glacier
Sensitivity of the dynamics of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to climate forcing for the next 50 years
... of Pine Island Glacier, Favier et ...of Pine Island Glacier is en- gaged on an unstable 40 km retreat and that the glacier is con- trolled by marine ice sheet ...
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Bathymetric controls on calving processes at Pine Island Glacier
... beneath Pine Island Glacier from autonomous underwater vehicles, but the data are lim- ited to the vicinity of widely spaced survey lines and only cover a small fraction of the cavity area (Jenkins ...
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Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
... Abstract. Ocean-induced basal melting is responsible for much of the Amundsen Sea Embayment ice loss in recent decades, but the total magnitude and spatiotemporal evolu- tion of this melt is poorly constrained. To ...
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Pine Island glacier ice shelf melt distributed at kilometre scales
... from Pine Island Glacier, which has thinned since at least 1992, driven by changes in ocean heat transport beneath its ice shelf and re- treat of the grounding ...the Pine Island ...
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Observations of surface mass balance on Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, and the effect of strain history in fast-flowing sections
... On Pine Island Glacier (PIG) draining into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica there is large heterogeneity in the spatial pattern of SMB, with significantly higher SMB towards the coast in ...
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Thermal structure and basal sliding parametrisation at Pine Island Glacier – a 3-D full-Stokes model study
... Abstract. Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest changing glaciers of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and therefore of scientific ...The glacier holds enough ice to raise the global sea level ...
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Increased rate of acceleration on Pine Island Glacier strongly coupled to changes in gravitational driving stress
... Abstract. Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, has been un- dergoing several related changes for at least two decades; these include acceleration, thinning and grounding line re- ...whole glacier ...
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A 125-year record of climate and chemistry variability at the Pine Island Glacier ice divide, Antarctica
... Abstract. The Mount Johns (MJ) ice core (79 ◦ 55 0 S; 94 ◦ 23 0 W) was drilled near the Pine Island Glacier ice di- vide on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the 2008–2009 austral summer, to a ...
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GPS-derived estimates of surface mass balance and ocean-induced basal melt for Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, Antarctica
... Here, we use continuous GPS records from the Pine Is- land Glacier (PIG) ice shelf to constrain local SMB, flux di- vergence, and BMB. We use changes in observed GPS an- tenna elevation and ...
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How dynamic are ice-stream beds?
... of Pine Island Glacier and Rutford Ice Stream have shown that improved understanding of the dynamism of the ice-sheet bed may best be gained from a multi-method sur- vey approach, involving (1) ...
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Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica, with airborne observations of snow accumulation
... At shallow depths, the spatial variation in the depth to a given horizon is largely driven by variations in the accumulation rate and, to a lesser extent, the density profile and the firn compaction rate, which are also ...
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Paleo ice flow and subglacial meltwater dynamics in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica
... ner Pine Island ...inner Pine Island ...of Pine Island Glacier has retreated by ∼ 30 km since 1973 (Jenkins et ...inner Pine Island Bay, caused by ...
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Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada)
... buried glacier ice exposed in coastal bluffs and headwalls of ret- rogressive thaw slumps of the Arctic have indicated that con- siderable amounts of late Pleistocene glacier ice survived the deglaciation ...
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UAV-based Survey of Glaciers in Himalayas: Opportunities and Challenges
... three glacier sites (East Rathong, Hamtah and Panchinala-A) located in different zones and climate regimes lying within the Indian part of ...generating glacier surface feature ...a glacier and its ...
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'Last chance tourism' at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Westland Tai Poutini National Park: A survey of visitor experience
... To enable interception of visitors using the valley floors, a safe and suitable location was identified (in conjunction with DOC) in the vehicle-free buffer zone between the car park and the entrance/start point of the ...
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Guide to the Vascular Flora of the Savannas, Flatwoods, and Sandhills of Shaken Creek Preserve and Vicinity (North Carolina).
... Shaken Creek Preserve (“SCP”) is a 2,448 ha (6,050 ac) Nationally Significant Natural Area in Pender County, North Carolina. Best known for its high-quality savanna habitat, the site contains seven savanna or savanna- ...
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Glacier changes in the Karakoram region mapped by multimission satellite imagery
... surge-type glacier inventories (Barrand and Murray, 2006; Copland et ...of glacier surface velocities is achieved from repeat, very high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as a composite in ...
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Changes in the morphology, mass balance, and dynamics of Brown Glacier, Heard Island, with comparison to the surrounding sub Antarctic islands
... g., Kerguelen, Marion, and Crozet Chapter 3 to determine local and regional changes in temperature and precipitation, • Surveys of Brown Glacier, conducted during two summer field season[r] ...
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A Summary of Fire Frequency Estimates for California Vegetation before Euro-American Settlement
... shore pine, spruce-hemlock) require further study and ap- plication of techniques other than fire scar ...shore pine, spruce-hemlock, west- ern white pine) are chronically ...(shore pine, ...
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A new method for deriving glacier centerlines applied to glaciers in Alaska and northwest Canada
... requiring glacier outlines and a digital eleva- tion model (DEM) as ...of glacier heads ...highest glacier elevations compare well to our longest cen- terline ...calculating glacier length, ...
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