Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate

• Main Authors: Cornford, S. L., Martin, D. F., Payne, A. J., Ng, E. G., Le Brocq, A. M., Gladstone, R. M., Edwards, T. L., Shannon, S. R., Agosta, C., van den Broeke, M. R., Hellmer, H. H., Krinner, G., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Timmermann, R., Vaughan, D. G.
• Other Authors: Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: PINE ISLAND GLACIER; GROUNDING-LINE MIGRATION; SURFACE MASS-BALANCE; WEDDELL SEA SECTOR; SHELF; FLOW; SENSITIVITY; MODELS; RETREAT; BED; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/321807

We use the BISICLES adaptive mesh ice sheet model to carry out one, two, and three century simulations of the fast-flowing ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, deploying sub-kilometer resolution around the grounding line since coarser resolution results in substantial underestimation of the...