Grounding-line Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Inner Pine Island Bay

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard, Smith, James A., Gohl, Karsten, Graham, Alastair G.C., Larter, Robert D., Klages, Johann P., Downey, Rachel, Moreton, Steven G., Forwick, Matthias, Vaughan, David G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2013
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1527; https://doi.org/10.1130/G33469.1

Ice loss from the marine-based, potentially unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) contributes to current sea-level rise and may raise sea level by ≤3.3 m or even ≤5 m in the future. Over the past few decades, glaciers draining the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) have shown accelerated...