Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Favier, L., Durand, G., Cornford, Stephen, Gudmundsson, Hilmar, Gagliardini, O., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Zwinger, T., Payne, Anthony, Le Brocq, A. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing 2014
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34797/; https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2094

Over the past 40 years Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has thinned at an accelerating rate, so that at present it is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica. In recent years, the grounding line, which separates the grounded ice sheet from the floating ice shelf, has ret...