Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2489-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2489-2019
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26 Sep 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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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.