Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 2016

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: de Rydt, Jan, Reese, Ronja, Paolo, Fernando S., Gudmundsson, Hilmar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Coperincus 2021
• Subjects: F600 Geology; F700 Ocean Sciences; F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; F900 Others in Physical Sciences; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/45190/; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-113-2021; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/45190/1/tc-15-113-2021.pdf

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is among the fastest changing glaciers worldwide. Over the last 2 decades, the glacier has lost in excess of a trillion tons of ice, or the equivalent of 3 mm of sea level rise. The ongoing changes are thought to have been triggered by ocean-induced thinning of...