Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Kazmierczak, Elise, Sun, Sainan, Coulon, Violaine, Pattyn, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Coperincus 2022
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weertman; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelves; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50500/; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4537-2022; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50500/1/tc-16-4537-2022.pdf

Major uncertainties in the response of ice sheets to environmental forcing are due to subglacial processes. These processes pertain to the type of sliding or friction law as well as the spatial and temporal evolution of the effective pressure at the base of ice sheets. We evaluate the classic Weertm...