The tipping points and early-warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Rosier, Sebastian H. R., Reese, Ronja, Donges, Jonathan F., Rydt, Jan, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar, Winkelmann, Ricarda
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-186; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-186/

Mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the main source of uncertainty in projections of future sea-level rise, with important implications for coastal regions worldwide. Central to this is the marine ice sheet instability: once a critical threshold, or tipping point, is crossed, ice-internal dyna...