Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Dutrieux, Pierre, de Rydt, Jan, Jenkins, Adrian, Holland, Paul, Ha, Ho Kyung, Lee, Sang Hoon, Steig, Eric, Ding, Qinghua, Abrahamsen, E. Povl, Schroder, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34840/; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1244341

Pine Island Glacier has thinned and accelerated over recent decades, significantly contributing to global sea-level rise. Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to have triggered those changes. Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available i...