Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 2016

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Rydt, Jan, Reese, Ronja, Paolo, Fernando S., Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-113-2021; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/113/2021/

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is among the fastest changing glaciers worldwide. Over the last 2 decades, the glacier has lost in excess of a trillion tons of ice, or the equivalent of 3 mm of sea level rise. The ongoing changes are thought to have been triggered by ocean-induced thinning of...