Bed conditions of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Main Authors: Brisbourne, Alex M., Smith, Andy M., Vaughan, David G., King, Edward C., Davies, D., Bingham, R.G., Smith, E.C., Nias, I.J., Rosier, Sebastian H.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2017
• Subjects: West Antarctica; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513935/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513935/1/Brisbourne.pdf; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2016JF004033/full

Although 90% of Antarctica's discharge occurs via its fast-flowing ice streams, our ability to project future ice sheet response has been limited by poor observational constraints on the ice-bed conditions used in numerical models to determine basal slip. We have helped address this observation...