Scaling of instability timescales of Antarctic outlet glaciers based on one-dimensional similitude analysis

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Levermann, Anders, Feldmann, Johannes
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Misi; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1621-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1621/2019/

Recent observations and ice-dynamic modeling suggest that a marine ice-sheet instability (MISI) might have been triggered in West Antarctica. The corresponding outlet glaciers, Pine Island Glacier (PIG) and Thwaites Glacier (TG), showed significant retreat during at least the last 2 decades. While o...