A review of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica: hypotheses of instability vs. observations of change

• Main Authors: Vaughan, David G., Smith, Andrew M., Corr, Hugh F.J., Jenkins, Adrian, Bentley, Charles R., Stenoien, Mark D., Jacobs, Stanley S., Kellogg, Thomas b., Rignot, Eric, Lucchitta, Baerbel K.
• Other Authors: Alley, R.B., Bindschadler, R.A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20326/; http://www.agu.org/books/ar/v077/AR077p0237/AR077p0237.shtml

The Pine Island Glacier ice-drainage basin has been cited as the part of the West Antarctic ice sheet most prone to substantial retreat on human time-scales. Here we review the literature and present new analyses showing that this ice-drainage basin is glaciologically unusual. Due to high precipitat...