West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Interhemispheric coupling, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and warm Antarctic interglacials
... in each of the last four interglacials. During the previous three interglacials, this anomalous warming was short lived ( ∼ 3000 years) and apparently occurred before the comple- tion of Northern Hemisphere deglaciation. ...
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Recent ice dynamic and surface mass balance of Union Glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
... the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), a major outlet glacier within the Ellsworth ...Ronne Ice Shelf, where recent mod- els have indicated the potential for significant grounding line ...
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An Overlooked Term in Assessment of the Potential Sea Level Rise from a Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
... based ice. Melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) into water is impossible in the upcoming several centuries, whereas breaking and par- tially afloat is likely as long as sea waters ...
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Simultaneous solution for mass trends on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
... The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest potential source of future sea-level ...the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) but with significant discrepancies between estimates, ...
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Large ensemble modeling of the last deglacial retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: comparison of simple and advanced statistical techniques
... hybrid ice-sheet model is applied to the last deglacial retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet over the last ∼ 20 000 ...
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Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate
... mesh ice sheet model to carry out one, two, and three century simulations of the fast-flowing ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, deploying sub-kilometer ...
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Thickness of the divide and flank of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through the last deglaciation
... the ice-sheet surface at ∼ 2200 m to a local ice cap that drapes the mountain top ...blue- ice area alee of the ...modern ice surface ...higher ice levels at ...
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Ancient pre-glacial erosion surfaces preserved beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
... the Antarctic features, however, the surfaces were later incised and fragmented by tectonic processes ...the ice sheet, where rates of subglacial erosion are low (Jamieson et ...downstream ...
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How much snow falls on the Antarctic ice sheet?
... the Antarctic continent (latitude < 82 ◦ S) is 14 % when the samples precipitation possible are not taken into account, and 26 % with the samples precipitation pos- sible ...the West Antarctic ...
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Dynamic Antarctic ice sheet during the early to mid-Miocene.
... grounded ice in the Ross Sea during the middle Miocene is only satisfied by Scenario B, which suggests that the Ross Sea continental shelf may have been shallower during the ...the ice sheet margin ...
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The Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK) – Part 2: Dynamic equilibrium simulation of the Antarctic ice sheet
... of ice thickness to ...in ice thickness of not more than a couple of hundred meters (positive or neg- ative, ...Ross Ice Shelf, the Pine Island Glacier and the Filchner Ice Shelf, and the ...
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Modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet across the mid-Pleistocene transition – implications for Oldest Ice
... Simulated ice volume changes before the MPT are charac- terised by a strong obliquity ( ≈ 41 kyr) cycle resembling the climate index forcing which is formed by the integrated plan- etary response to orbital ...an ...
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Formulation, calibration and validation of the DAIS model (version 1), a simple Antarctic ice sheet model sensitive to variations of sea level and ocean subsurface temperature
... present-day West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) ...of ice flow on grounding thickness facili- tates marine ice sheet instability, such as would likely be ac- tive in a WAIS ...
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet response to glacial millennial-scale variability
... The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is the largest ice sheet on Earth and hence a major potential contributor to fu- ture global sea-level ...the West Antarctic Ice ...
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Modelling the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet since the last interglacial
... tic ice sheet over the period from the last interglacial until the ...dynamic ice model ANICE forward in ...for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice-core proxy record for ...
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Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse.
... by ice-sheet loss 5,11 . Recent ice core results indicate that the Greenland ice sheet likely provided a modest 2 m contribution towards the global sea-level rise 5 , with estimates ...
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Future Antarctic bed topography and its implications for ice sheet dynamics
... The Antarctic bedrock is evolving as the solid Earth responds to the past and ongoing evolution of the ice ...improved ice loading history suggests that the Antarctic Ice Sheet ...
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A 21 000-year record of fluorescent organic matter markers in the WAIS Divide ice core
... Englacial ice contains a significant reservoir of organic material (OM), preserving a chronological record of materials from Earth’s ...in ice core research can provide pale- oecological information on the ...
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West Antarctic sites for subglacial drilling to test for past ice-sheet collapse
... the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is increasing, and there is concern that an incip- ient large-scale deglaciation of the marine basins may al- ready be ...by ice-sheet ...
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Oceanic response to changes in the WAIS and astronomical forcing during the MIS31 superinterglacial
... modified West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) topography, show an increase in the thermohaline flux and northward oceanic heat transport (OHT) in the Pa- cific ...sea ice in the Northern ...
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