Brief communication: Thwaites Glacier cavity evolution

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Bevan, Suzanne L, Luckman, Adrian J, Benn, Douglas I, Adusumilli, Susheel, Crawford, Anna
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council, Swansea University, University of St Andrews, University of California, San Diego, Biological and Environmental Sciences, orcid:0000-0003-2649-2982, orcid:0000-0002-9618-5905
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2021
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Water Science and Technology; Thwaites Glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36452; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3317-2021; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/9bd4efe3-bd8f-496c-b7b6-827a0c89b04c/tc-15-3317-2021.pdf

Between 2014 and 2017, ocean melt eroded a large cavity beneath and along the western margin of the fast-flowing core of Thwaites Glacier. Here we show that from 2017 to the end of 2020 the cavity persisted but did not expand. This behaviour, of melt concentrated at the grounding line within confine...