Ocean access beneath the southwest tributary of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Schroeder, Dustin M., Hilger, Andrew M., Paden, John D., Young, Duncan A., Corr, Hugh F.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520839/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520839/1/Schroeder.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2017.45

The catchments of Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment are two of the largest, most rapidly changing, and potentially unstable sectors of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. They are also neighboring outlets, separated by the topographically unconfined eastern shear margi...