www.the-cryosphere.net/3/125/2009/ © Author(s) 2009. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The Cryosphere Increased rate of acceleration on Pine Island Glacier strongly

• Main Authors: J. B. T. Scott, G. H. Gudmundsson, A. M. Smith, R. G. Bingham, H. D. Pritchard, D. G. Vaughan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.426.3354; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2402/1/2009_Scott_TC_PIG_GPS.pdf

Abstract. Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, has been undergoing several related changes for at least two decades; these include acceleration, thinning and grounding line retreat. During the first major ground-based study between 2006 and 2008, GPS receivers were used to monitor ice flow from 55 km to...