Estimating Greenland tidewater glacier retreat driven by submarine melting

Slater, Donald A.; Straneo, Fiamma; Felikson, Denis; Little, Christopher M.; Goelzer, Heiko; Fettweis, Xavier; Holte, James

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2489-2019

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Estimating Greenland tidewater glacier retreat driven by submarine melting

Donald A. Slater, Fiamma Straneo, Denis Felikson, Christopher M. Little, Heiko Goelzer, Xavier Fettweis, and James Holte

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RC1: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 May 2019
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RC2: 'Review of tc-2019-98', Ellyn Enderlin, 31 May 2019
- AC1: 'Response to reviews and revised manuscript', Donald Slater, 26 Jul 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Aug 2019) by William Lipscomb

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Aug 2019) by William Lipscomb

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Short summary

The ocean's influence on the retreat of Greenland's tidewater glaciers is a key factor determining future sea level. By considering observations of ~200 glaciers from 1960, we find a significant relationship between retreat and melting in the ocean. Projected forwards, this relationship estimates the future evolution of Greenland's tidewater glaciers and provides a practical and empirically validated way of representing ice–ocean interaction in large-scale models used to estimate sea level rise.