Drivers of Pine Island Glacier retreat from 1996 to 2016

• Main Authors: Rydt, Jan, Reese, Ronja, Paolo, Fernando, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-160; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-160/

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is among the fastest changing glaciers worldwide. Over the last two 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 commonly attributed to ocean-induced thinning of its floa...