Sensitivity of centennial mass loss projections of the Amundsen basin to the friction law

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Brondex, Julien, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Gagliardini, Olivier
• Other Authors: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Amundsen Sea; Weertman; amundsen basin; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03031516; https://hal.science/hal-03031516/document; https://hal.science/hal-03031516/file/Brondex%20et%20al.%20-%202019%20-%20Sensitivity%20of%20centennial%20mass%20loss%20projections%20of.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-177-2019

International audience Reliable projections of ice sheets' future contributions to sea-level rise require models that are able to accurately simulate grounding-line dynamics, starting from initial states consistent with observations. Here, we simulate the centennial evolution of the Amundsen Se...