GPS-derived estimates of surface mass balance and ocean-induced basal melt for Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, Antarctica

In the last 2 decades, Pine Island Glacier (PIG) experienced marked speedup, thinning, and grounding-line retreat, likely due to marine ice-sheet instability and ice-shelf basal melt. To better understand these processes, we combined 2008–2010 and 2012–2014 GPS records with dynamic firn model output...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: D. E. Shean, K. Christianson, K. M. Larson, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, I. R. Joughin, B. E. Smith, C. M. Stevens, M. Bushuk, D. M. Holland
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
Subjects:
geo
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2655-2017
https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/2655/2017/tc-11-2655-2017.pdf
https://doaj.org/article/798cfbee8ed9445dbeffd445c4dfc1ac