Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, over the next 100 years using various ice flow models, ice shelf melt scenarios and basal friction laws

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Yu, Hongju, Rignot, Eric, Seroussi, Helene, Morlighem, Mathieu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3861-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00003725; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00003682/tc-12-3861-2018.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/3861/2018/tc-12-3861-2018.pdf

Thwaites Glacier (TG), West Antarctica, has experienced rapid, potentially irreversible grounding line retreat and mass loss in response to enhanced ice shelf melting. Results from recent numerical models suggest a large spread in the evolution of the glacier in the coming decades to a century. It i...