Acceleration of Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, West Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Rignot, Eric, Vaughan, David G., Schmeltz, Majorie, Dupont, Todd, MacAyeal, Douglas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2002
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17401/

Recent satellite investigations revealed that in the 1990s the grounding line of Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, West Antarctica, retreated several km, the ice surface on the interior of the basins lowered 10 cm a-1, and Pine Island Glacier thinned 1.6 m a-1. These observations, however, were not...