Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 2016

• Main Authors: De Rydt, Jan, Reese, Ronja, Paolo, Fernando S., Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus 2021
• Subjects: data assimilation; floating ice; grounding line; ice flow; ice shelf; ice thickness; iceberg calving; remote sensing; rheology; sea level; viscosity; Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; 910; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/10580; https://doi.org/10.34657/9616

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is among the fastest changing glaciers worldwide. Over the last 2 decades, the glacier has lost in excess of a trillion tons of ice, or the equivalent of 3 mm of sea level rise. The ongoing changes are thought to have been triggered by ocean-induced thinning of...