High mid-Holocene accumulation rates over West Antarctica inferred from a pervasive ice-penetrating radar reflector

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Bodart, Julien A., Bingham, Robert G., Young, Duncan A., MacGregor, Joseph A., Ashmore, David W., Quartini, Enrica, Hein, Andrew S., Vaughan, David G., Blakenship, Donald D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; Weddell; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533495/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533495/1/tc-17-1497-2023.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/1497/2023/tc-17-1497-2023.html

Understanding the past and future evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is challenged by the availability and quality of observed paleo-boundary conditions. Numerical ice-sheet models often rely on these paleo-boundary conditions to guide and evaluate their models' predictions of sea-level rise,...