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: unknown
• Published: AAAS 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island Glacier
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36289/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36289/1/Dutrieux_etal-2014-Science.pdf; http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6167/174; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44137; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44137.d001

Pine Island Glacier has thinned and accelerated over recent decades, significantly contributing to global sea level rise. Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to have triggered those changes. Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available i...