Accelerated heterogeneous retreat of Thwaites glacier, West Antarctica, fueled by high subaqueous melting at the grounding line.

• Main Authors: Milillo, Pietro, Rignot, Eric, Rizzoli, Paola, Scheucl, Bernd, Muginot, Jeremie, Bueso Bello, Jose Luis, Prats, Pau
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Radarsysteme; Satelliten-SAR-Systeme; Amundsen Sea; Thwaites Glacier; Thwaites Glacier Tongue; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/127177/

The glaciers flowing into West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) have been characterized by significant changes during the last decades including acceleration, grounding line retreat and a positive mass imbalance. Here we measure Thwaites glacier draining the Amundsen Sea sector of West Anta...