Sub-ice-shelf sediments record history of twentieth-century retreat of Pine Island Glacier [Sub-ice shelf sediments record 20 th century retreat history of Pine Island Glacier]

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Smith, J. A., Andersen, T. J., Shortt, M., Gaffney, A. M., Truffer, M., Stanton, T. P., Bindschadler, R., Dutrieux, P., Jenkins, A., Hillenbrand, C. -D., Ehrmann, W., Corr, H. F. J., Farley, N., Crowhurst, S., Vaughan, D. G.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 58 GEOSCIENCES; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414362; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1414362; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20136

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the largest potential sources of rising sea levels. Over the past 40 years, glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea sector of the ice sheet have thinned at an accelerating rate, and several numerical models suggest that unstable and irreversible retreat of the g...