A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Martim Mas e Braga, Richard S. Jones, Jorge Bernales, Jane Lund Andersen, Ola Fredin, Mathieu Morlighem, Alexandria J. Koester, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Jonathan M. Harbor, Yusuke Suganuma, Neil F. Glasser, Irina Rogozhina, Arjen P. Stroeven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2023
• Subjects: Geology; QE1-996.5; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Jutulstraumen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00983-3; https://doaj.org/article/c55f1988ac9d40979e2198fe032c0e41

Abstract Ice streams regulate most ice mass loss in Antarctica. Determining ice stream response to warmer conditions during the Pliocene could provide insights into their future behaviour, but this is hindered by a poor representation of subglacial topography in ice-sheet models. We address this lim...