Thermal structure and basal sliding parametrisation at Pine Island Glacier – a 3-D full-Stokes model study

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: N. Wilkens, J. Behrens, T. Kleiner, D. Rippin, M. Rückamp, A. Humbert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-675-2015; https://doaj.org/article/f24252a8274a4494b50dc77784a29f22

Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest changing glaciers of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and therefore of scientific interest. The glacier holds enough ice to raise the global sea level significantly (~ 0.5 m) when fully melted. The question addressed by numerous modelling studies of the glacier focus...