Glacier change along West Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land Sector and links to inter-decadal atmosphere–ocean variability

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Christie, Frazer D.W., Bingham, Robert G., Gourmelen, Noel, Steig, Eric J., Bisset, Rosie R., Pritchard, Hamish D., Snow, Kate, Tett, Simon F.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications on behalf of European Geosciences Union 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ross Ice Shelf; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Thwaites Glacier; Getz; Getz Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520678/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520678/1/Christie.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2461-2018

Over the past 20 years satellite remote sensing has captured significant downwasting of glaciers that drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean, particularly across the Amundsen Sea Sector. Along the neighbouring Marie Byrd Land Sector, situated west of Thwaites Glacier to Ross Ice Shelf, gl...