Bed conditions of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Main Authors: Brisbourne, Alex, Smith, Andrew M., Vaughan, David, King, Edward, Davies, Damon, Bingham, Robert, Smith, Emma, Nias, Isabel, Rosier, Sebastian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2017
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34448/; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF004033; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34448/1/Brisbourne%20et%20al%20-%20Bed%20conditions%20of%20Pine%20Island%20Glacier,%20West%20Antarctica%20AAM.pdf

Although 90% of Antarctica's discharge occurs via its fast‐flowing ice streams, our ability to project future ice sheet response has been limited by poor observational constraints on the ice‐bed conditions used in numerical models to determine basal slip. We have helped address this observation...