Spatio-temporal variability of processes across Antarctic ice-bed–ocean interfaces

Understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet will respond to global warming relies on knowledge of how it has behaved in the past. The use of numerical models, the only means to quantitatively predict the future, is hindered by limitations to topographic data both now and in the past, and in knowledge...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Colleoni, F, De Santis, L, Siddoway, CS, Bergamasco, S, Golledge, NR, Lohmann, G, Passchier, S, Siegert, MJ
Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), British Council (UK)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Subjects:
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT
LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM
SEA-LEVEL RISE
PLIOCENE WARM PERIOD
ROSS SEA
SUBGLACIAL LAKES
SHEET MODEL
EAST ANTARCTICA
MIDDLE MIOCENE
WEST ANTARCTICA
MD Multidisciplinary
Antarctic
The Antarctic
East Antarctica
Ross Sea
West Antarctica
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/61573
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04583-0
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Summary:Understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet will respond to global warming relies on knowledge of how it has behaved in the past. The use of numerical models, the only means to quantitatively predict the future, is hindered by limitations to topographic data both now and in the past, and in knowledge of how subsurface oceanic, glaciological and hydrological processes interact. Incorporating the variety and interplay of such processes, operating at multiple spatio-temporal scales, is critical to modeling the Antarctic’s system evolution and requires direct observations in challenging locations. As these processes do not observe disciplinary boundaries neither should our future research.

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