High‐resolution sub‐ice‐shelf seafloor records of twentieth century ungrounding and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Main Authors: Davies, D., Bingham, R. G., Graham, A. G. C., Spagnolo, M., Dutrieux, P., Vaughan, D. G., Jenkins, Adrian, Nitsche, F. O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2017
• Subjects: F700 Ocean Sciences; F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Jenkins Ridge; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal; Ice Shelf; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42665/; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004311; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42665/1/High-resolution%20sub-ice-shelf%20seafloor%20records%20of%20twentieth%20century%20ungrounding%20and%20retreat%20of%20Pine%20Island%20Glacier,%20West%20Antarctica.pdf

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (PIGIS) has been thinning rapidly over recent decades, resulting in a progressive drawdown of the inland ice and an upstream migration of the grounding line. The resultant ice loss from Pine Island Glacier (PIG) and its neighboring ice streams presently contributes an e...