Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Dutrieux, Pierre, De Rydt, Jan, Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul R., Ha, Ho Kyung, Lee, Sang Hoon, Steig, Eric J., Ding, Qinghua, Abrahamsen, E. Povl, Schröder, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1244341; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1244341

Cold Glacier Growth Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica has thinned significantly during the last two decades and has provided a measurable contribution to sea-level rise as a result. Both glacier dynamics and climate are thought to be responsible for thinning, but exactly how they influence the glaci...