Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over past decades through the accelerated flow of its glaciers, conditioned by ocean temperature and bed topography. Glaciers retreating along retrograde slopes (that is, the bed elevation drops in the inland direction) are potentially unstable, while sub...
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ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:41741 2023-05-15T13:41:26+02:00 Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet Morlighem, Mathieu Rignot, Eric Binder, Tobias Blankenship, Donald Drews, Reinhard Eagles, Graeme Eisen, Olaf Ferraccioli, Fausto Forsberg, René Fretwell, Peter Goel, Vikram Greenbaum, Jamin S. Gudmundsson, Hilmar Guo, Jingxue Helm, Veit Hofstede, Coen Howat, Ian Humbert, Angelika Jokat, Wilfried Karlsson, Nanna B. Lee, Won Sang Matsuoka, Kenichi Millan, Romain Mouginot, Jeremie Paden, John Pattyn, Frank Roberts, Jason Rosier, Sebastian Ruppel, Antonia Seroussi, Helene Smith, Emma C. Steinhage, Daniel Sun, Bo Broeke, Michiel R. van den Ommen, Tas D. van Wessem, Melchior van Young, Duncan A. 2020-02 text https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41741/ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41741/1/BedMachinePaper.pdf en eng Springer https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41741/1/BedMachinePaper.pdf Morlighem, Mathieu, Rignot, Eric, Binder, Tobias, Blankenship, Donald, Drews, Reinhard, Eagles, Graeme, Eisen, Olaf, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Forsberg, René, Fretwell, Peter, Goel, Vikram, Greenbaum, Jamin S., Gudmundsson, Hilmar, Guo, Jingxue, Helm, Veit, Hofstede, Coen, Howat, Ian, Humbert, Angelika, Jokat, Wilfried, Karlsson, Nanna B., Lee, Won Sang, Matsuoka, Kenichi, Millan, Romain, Mouginot, Jeremie, Paden, John, Pattyn, Frank, Roberts, Jason, Rosier, Sebastian, Ruppel, Antonia, Seroussi, Helene, Smith, Emma C., Steinhage, Daniel, Sun, Bo, Broeke, Michiel R. van den, Ommen, Tas D. van, Wessem, Melchior van and Young, Duncan A. (2020) Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet. Nature Geoscience, 13 (2). pp. 132-137. ISSN 1752-0908 F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftunivnorthumb https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8 2022-09-25T06:11:13Z The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over past decades through the accelerated flow of its glaciers, conditioned by ocean temperature and bed topography. Glaciers retreating along retrograde slopes (that is, the bed elevation drops in the inland direction) are potentially unstable, while subglacial ridges slow down the glacial retreat. Despite major advances in the mapping of subglacial bed topography, significant sectors of Antarctica remain poorly resolved and critical spatial details are missing. Here we present a novel, high-resolution and physically based description of Antarctic bed topography using mass conservation. Our results reveal previously unknown basal features with major implications for glacier response to climate change. For example, glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains are protected by broad, stabilizing ridges. Conversely, in the marine basin of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, we find retrograde slopes along Ninnis and Denman glaciers, with stabilizing slopes beneath Moscow University, Totten and Lambert glacier system, despite corrections in bed elevation of up to 1 km for the latter. This transformative description of bed topography redefines the high- and lower-risk sectors for rapid sea level rise from Antarctica; it will also significantly impact model projections of sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Lambert Glacier Wilkes Land Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) Antarctic East Antarctica Lambert Glacier ENVELOPE(67.490,67.490,-73.065,-73.065) The Antarctic Transantarctic Mountains Wilkes Land ENVELOPE(120.000,120.000,-69.000,-69.000) Nature Geoscience 13 2 132 137 |
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F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences Morlighem, Mathieu Rignot, Eric Binder, Tobias Blankenship, Donald Drews, Reinhard Eagles, Graeme Eisen, Olaf Ferraccioli, Fausto Forsberg, René Fretwell, Peter Goel, Vikram Greenbaum, Jamin S. Gudmundsson, Hilmar Guo, Jingxue Helm, Veit Hofstede, Coen Howat, Ian Humbert, Angelika Jokat, Wilfried Karlsson, Nanna B. Lee, Won Sang Matsuoka, Kenichi Millan, Romain Mouginot, Jeremie Paden, John Pattyn, Frank Roberts, Jason Rosier, Sebastian Ruppel, Antonia Seroussi, Helene Smith, Emma C. Steinhage, Daniel Sun, Bo Broeke, Michiel R. van den Ommen, Tas D. van Wessem, Melchior van Young, Duncan A. Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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The Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over past decades through the accelerated flow of its glaciers, conditioned by ocean temperature and bed topography. Glaciers retreating along retrograde slopes (that is, the bed elevation drops in the inland direction) are potentially unstable, while subglacial ridges slow down the glacial retreat. Despite major advances in the mapping of subglacial bed topography, significant sectors of Antarctica remain poorly resolved and critical spatial details are missing. Here we present a novel, high-resolution and physically based description of Antarctic bed topography using mass conservation. Our results reveal previously unknown basal features with major implications for glacier response to climate change. For example, glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains are protected by broad, stabilizing ridges. Conversely, in the marine basin of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, we find retrograde slopes along Ninnis and Denman glaciers, with stabilizing slopes beneath Moscow University, Totten and Lambert glacier system, despite corrections in bed elevation of up to 1 km for the latter. This transformative description of bed topography redefines the high- and lower-risk sectors for rapid sea level rise from Antarctica; it will also significantly impact model projections of sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries. |
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Morlighem, Mathieu Rignot, Eric Binder, Tobias Blankenship, Donald Drews, Reinhard Eagles, Graeme Eisen, Olaf Ferraccioli, Fausto Forsberg, René Fretwell, Peter Goel, Vikram Greenbaum, Jamin S. Gudmundsson, Hilmar Guo, Jingxue Helm, Veit Hofstede, Coen Howat, Ian Humbert, Angelika Jokat, Wilfried Karlsson, Nanna B. Lee, Won Sang Matsuoka, Kenichi Millan, Romain Mouginot, Jeremie Paden, John Pattyn, Frank Roberts, Jason Rosier, Sebastian Ruppel, Antonia Seroussi, Helene Smith, Emma C. Steinhage, Daniel Sun, Bo Broeke, Michiel R. van den Ommen, Tas D. van Wessem, Melchior van Young, Duncan A. |
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Morlighem, Mathieu Rignot, Eric Binder, Tobias Blankenship, Donald Drews, Reinhard Eagles, Graeme Eisen, Olaf Ferraccioli, Fausto Forsberg, René Fretwell, Peter Goel, Vikram Greenbaum, Jamin S. Gudmundsson, Hilmar Guo, Jingxue Helm, Veit Hofstede, Coen Howat, Ian Humbert, Angelika Jokat, Wilfried Karlsson, Nanna B. Lee, Won Sang Matsuoka, Kenichi Millan, Romain Mouginot, Jeremie Paden, John Pattyn, Frank Roberts, Jason Rosier, Sebastian Ruppel, Antonia Seroussi, Helene Smith, Emma C. Steinhage, Daniel Sun, Bo Broeke, Michiel R. van den Ommen, Tas D. van Wessem, Melchior van Young, Duncan A. |
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41741/1/BedMachinePaper.pdf Morlighem, Mathieu, Rignot, Eric, Binder, Tobias, Blankenship, Donald, Drews, Reinhard, Eagles, Graeme, Eisen, Olaf, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Forsberg, René, Fretwell, Peter, Goel, Vikram, Greenbaum, Jamin S., Gudmundsson, Hilmar, Guo, Jingxue, Helm, Veit, Hofstede, Coen, Howat, Ian, Humbert, Angelika, Jokat, Wilfried, Karlsson, Nanna B., Lee, Won Sang, Matsuoka, Kenichi, Millan, Romain, Mouginot, Jeremie, Paden, John, Pattyn, Frank, Roberts, Jason, Rosier, Sebastian, Ruppel, Antonia, Seroussi, Helene, Smith, Emma C., Steinhage, Daniel, Sun, Bo, Broeke, Michiel R. van den, Ommen, Tas D. van, Wessem, Melchior van and Young, Duncan A. (2020) Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet. Nature Geoscience, 13 (2). pp. 132-137. ISSN 1752-0908 |
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