Summary: | The Totten Glacier, near Casey research station,is thought to be the canary in the coalminefor climate change in East Antarctica, holdingback at least three metres of potential sealevel rise. Previous studies have suggested thatit is thinning and beginning to retreat.In a new study I and my co-authors from theAustralian Antarctic Division*, CSIRO, andUniversity of Texas, used computer simulations(previously described in Australian AntarcticMagazine 21: 14-15, 2011) to pick apart howand why melting was varying beneath theTotten Ice Shelf.
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