High mid-Holocene accumulation rates over West Antarctica inferred from a pervasive ice-penetrating radar reflector

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. A. Bodart, R. G. Bingham, D. A. Young, J. A. MacGregor, D. W. Ashmore, E. Quartini, A. S. Hein, D. G. Vaughan, D. D. Blankenship
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Weddell; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1497-2023; https://doaj.org/article/900d0fa648fc4d84a628537ed61a88e4

Understanding the past and future evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is challenged by the availability and quality of observed paleo-boundary conditions. Numerical ice-sheet models often rely on these paleo-boundary conditions to guide and evaluate their models' predictions of sea-level rise,...