Sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier to observed ocean forcing

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Christianson, Knut, Bushuk, Mitchell, Dutrieux, Pierre, Parizek, Byron R., Joughin, Ian R., Alley, Richard B., Shean, David E., Abrahamsen, E. Povl, Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Heywood, Karen J., Kim, Tae-Wan, Lee, Sang Hoon, Nicholls, Keith, Stanton, Tim, Truffer, Martin, Webber, Benjamin G. M., Jenkins, Adrian, Jacobs, Stan, Bindschadler, Robert, Holland, David M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61655/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61655/1/Published_manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070500

We present subannual observations (2009–2014) of a major West Antarctic glacier (Pine Island Glacier) and the neighboring ocean. Ongoing glacier retreat and accelerated ice flow were likely triggered a few decades ago by increased ocean-induced thinning, which may have initiated marine ice sheet ins...