Drivers of abrupt Holocene shifts in West Antarctic ice stream direction determined from combined ice sheet modelling and geologic signatures

• Main Authors: Fogwill, C.J., Turney, C.S.M., Golledge, N.R., Rood, D.H., Hippe, K., Wacker, L., Wieler, R., Rainsley, E.B., Jones, R.S.
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Institute Ice Stream; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/295573/files/S0954102014000613.pdf

Determining the millennial-scale behaviour of marine-based sectors of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is critical to improve predictions of the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise. Here high-resolution ice sheet modelling was combined with new terrestrial geological constraints (...