Widespread seawater intrusions beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.

• Main Authors: Ciracì, Enrico, Scheuchl, Bernd, Tolpekin, Valentyn, Wollersheim, Michael, Dow, Christine, Rignot, Eric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2024
• Subjects: Antarctica; Southern Ocean; hydrology; interferometry; sea level rise; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q4236kr

Warm water from the Southern Ocean has a dominant impact on the evolution of Antarctic glaciers and in turn on their contribution to sea level rise. Using a continuous time series of daily-repeat satellite synthetic-aperture radar interferometry data from the ICEYE constellation collected in March-J...