Pine Island Glacier – basal properties and sliding laws

• Main Authors: Wilkens, Nina, Humbert, Angelika
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geophysical Research Abstracts 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32910/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32910/1/EGU2013-7430.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41462; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41462.d001

The dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet can be well seen and studied on the behavior of Pine Island Glacier. Despite the long time believe in a slow response of the ice sheet to changing atmospheric and oceanic forcing, Pine Island has shown acceleration, thinning and a significant grounding line re...