West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions.

• Main Authors: Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Smith, James A, Hodell, David A, Greaves, Mervyn, Poole, Christopher R, Kender, Sev, Williams, Mark, Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, Jernas, Patrycja E, Elderfield, Henry, Klages, Johann P, Roberts, Stephen J, Gohl, Karsten, Larter, Robert D, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic Regions; Foraminifera; Freezing; Geologic Sediments; Global Warming; History; 19th Century; 20th Century; 21st Century; Ancient; Hot Temperature; Ice Cover; Models; Theoretical; Oceans and Seas; Reproducibility of Results; Seawater; Wind; Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Buttress; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266625; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11512

Glaciological and oceanographic observations coupled with numerical models show that warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) incursions onto the West Antarctic continental shelf cause melting of the undersides of floating ice shelves. Because these ice shelves buttress glaciers feeding into them, their oc...