Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Cornford, S. L., Martin, D. F., Payne, A. J., Ng, E. G., Brocq, A. M., Gladstone, R. M., Edwards, T. L., Shannon, S. R., Agosta, C., Broeke, M. R., Hellmer, H. H., Krinner, G., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Timmermann, R., Vaughan, D. G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1579-2015; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/1579/2015/

We use the BISICLES adaptive mesh ice sheet model to carry out one, two, and three century simulations of the fast-flowing ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, deploying sub-kilometer resolution around the grounding line since coarser resolution results in substantial underestimation of the...