West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster
Scottish Geographical Journal, 2020 Over 40 years ago, the glaciologist John Mercer warned that parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were at risk of collapse due to the CO2 greenhouse effect.
D. Benn, D. Sugden
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Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Radar reflections from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet contain a comprehensive archive of past accumulation rates, ice dynamics, and basal melting. Combining these data with dynamic ice sheet models may greatly aid model calibration, improve past
A. Born +4 more
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Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada [PDF]
, 2012 Terrestrial permafrost archives along the Yukon Coastal Plain (northwest Canada) have recorded landscape development and environmental change since the Late Wisconsinan at the interface of unglaciated Beringia (i.e.
Fritz, Michael +6 more
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A stochastic parameterization of ice sheet surface mass balance for the Stochastic Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level System Model (StISSM v1.0) [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentMany scientific and societal questions that draw on ice sheet modeling necessitate sampling a wide range of potential climatic changes and realizations of internal climate variability.
L. Ultee +3 more
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Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Uncertainties in future sea level projections are dominated by our limited understanding of the dynamical processes that control instabilities of marine ice sheets. The last deglaciation of the British–Irish Ice Sheet offers a valuable example to examine
N. Gandy +7 more
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An assessment of key model parametric uncertainties in projections of Greenland Ice Sheet behavior [PDF]
, 2012 Lack of knowledge about the values of ice sheet model input parameters introduces substantial uncertainty into projections of Greenland Ice Sheet contributions to future sea level rise.
Applegate, P. J. +4 more
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Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentMost of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn — the transitional material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass balance and hydrology, and palaeoclimate. In this Review, we synthesize knowledge of firn, including its formation, observation, modelling and relevance to ice sheets.
Amory, Charles +34 more
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Anisotropic Radial Basis Function Methods for Continental Size Ice Sheet Simulations
, 2017 In this paper we develop and implement anisotropic radial basis function methods for simulating the dynamics of ice sheets and glaciers. We test the methods on two problems: the well-known benchmark ISMIP-HOM B that corresponds to a glacier size ice and ...
Cheng, Gong, Shcherbakov, Victor
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ICESat: Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite [PDF]
, 2007 This brochure describes NASA's ICESat mission ((Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), which was launched January 12, 2003. ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as ...
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A persistent and dynamic East Greenland Ice Sheet over the past 7.5 million years [PDF]
, 2016 Climate models show that ice-sheet melt will dominate sea-level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice-sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.
Bierman, Paul R. +4 more
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