Initial results from International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration cruise NBP20-02

• Main Authors: Larter, Robert, Wellner, Julia, Graham, Alastair, Boehme, Lars
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/initial-results-from-international-thwaites-glacier-collaboration-cruise-nbp2002(2de83051-a8b6-48b8-a79c-c8409752d222).html; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17529

Thwaites Glacier (TG) is more vulnerable to unstable retreat than any other part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This is due to its upstream-dipping bed, the absence of a large ice shelf buttressing its flow and the deep bathymetric troughs that route relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) to...