Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica ...
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf buttresses a significant portion of Thwaites Glacier through contact with a pinning point 40 km offshore of the present grounding line. Predicting future rates of Thwaites Glacier’s contribution to sea-level rise depends on the evolution of this pinning point and the r...
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ftdatacite:10.34944/dspace/9302 2024-02-04T09:55:31+01:00 Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica ... Unkn Unknown 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/9302 https://scholarshare.temple.edu/handle/20.500.12613/9340 en eng My University Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Text article Collection 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.34944/dspace/9302 2024-01-05T04:51:50Z The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf buttresses a significant portion of Thwaites Glacier through contact with a pinning point 40 km offshore of the present grounding line. Predicting future rates of Thwaites Glacier’s contribution to sea-level rise depends on the evolution of this pinning point and the resultant change in the ice-shelf stress field since the breakup of the Thwaites Western Glacier Tongue in 2009. Here we use Landsat-8 feature tracking of ice velocity in combination with ice-sheet model perturbation experiments to show how past changes in flow velocity have been governed in large part by changes in lateral shear and pinning point interactions with the Thwaites Western Glacier Tongue. We then use recent satellite altimetry data from ICESat-2 to show that Thwaites Glacier’s grounding line has continued to retreat rapidly; in particular, the grounded area of the pinning point is greatly reduced from earlier mappings in 2014, and grounded ice elevations are continuing to decrease. This loss has ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Thwaites Glacier West Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Thwaites Glacier ENVELOPE(-106.750,-106.750,-75.500,-75.500) West Antarctica Western Glacier ENVELOPE(-63.745,-63.745,58.887,58.887) |
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The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf buttresses a significant portion of Thwaites Glacier through contact with a pinning point 40 km offshore of the present grounding line. Predicting future rates of Thwaites Glacier’s contribution to sea-level rise depends on the evolution of this pinning point and the resultant change in the ice-shelf stress field since the breakup of the Thwaites Western Glacier Tongue in 2009. Here we use Landsat-8 feature tracking of ice velocity in combination with ice-sheet model perturbation experiments to show how past changes in flow velocity have been governed in large part by changes in lateral shear and pinning point interactions with the Thwaites Western Glacier Tongue. We then use recent satellite altimetry data from ICESat-2 to show that Thwaites Glacier’s grounding line has continued to retreat rapidly; in particular, the grounded area of the pinning point is greatly reduced from earlier mappings in 2014, and grounded ice elevations are continuing to decrease. This loss has ... |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/9302 https://scholarshare.temple.edu/handle/20.500.12613/9340 |
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ENVELOPE(-106.750,-106.750,-75.500,-75.500) ENVELOPE(-63.745,-63.745,58.887,58.887) |
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Thwaites Glacier West Antarctica Western Glacier |
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Thwaites Glacier West Antarctica Western Glacier |
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Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Thwaites Glacier West Antarctica |
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Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Thwaites Glacier West Antarctica |
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