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: H. Yu, E. Rignot, H. Seroussi, M. Morlighem
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: geo; envir; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3861-2018; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/3861/2018/tc-12-3861-2018.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/8f43bd31fbce472581d50c2f803a72c0

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...