Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers to Melt and Sliding Parameterizations

• Main Authors: Joughin, Ian, Shapero, Daniel, Dutrieux, Pierre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2024
• Subjects: Pine Island Glacier; Weertman; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536632/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536632/1/tc-18-2583-2024.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/2583/2024/

The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are the two largest contributors to sea level rise from Antarctica. Here we examine the influence of basal friction and ice shelf basal melt in determining projected losses. We examine both Weertman and Coulomb friction laws with explicit weakening as the ice th...