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Research article
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07 Jan 2021
Research article |
| 07 Jan 2021
| 07 Jan 2021
Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 2016
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Ronja Reese
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Fernando S. Paolo
Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Short summary
We used satellite observations and numerical simulations of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, between 1996 and 2016 to show that the recent increase in its flow speed can only be reproduced by computer models if stringent assumptions are made about the material properties of the ice and its underlying bed. These assumptions are not commonly adopted in ice flow modelling, and our results therefore have implications for future simulations of Antarctic ice flow and sea level projections.
We used satellite observations and numerical simulations of Pine Island Glacier, West...
