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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Cornford, S., Martin, D., Payne, A., Ng, E., Le Brocq, A., Gladstone, R., Edwards, T., Shannon, S., Agosta, C., van den Broeke, M., Hellmer, H., Krinner, G., Ligtenberg, S., Timmermann, R., Vaughan, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/292127.pdf

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...