Thermal structure and basal sliding parametrisation at Pine Island Glacier – a 3-D full-Stokes model study

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Wilkens, Nina, Behrens, Jörn, Kleiner, Thomas, Rippin, David M., Rückamp, Martin, Humbert, Angelika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38895/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38895/1/tc-9-675-2015.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-675-2015; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46149; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46149.d001

Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest changing glaciers of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and therefore of scientific interest. The glacier holds enough ice to raise the global sea level significantly (~ 0.5 m) when fully melted. The question addressed by numerous modelling studies of the glacier focus...