Articles | Volume 16, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4291-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4291-2022
Research article
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13 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 13 Oct 2022

The predictive power of ice sheet models and the regional sensitivity of ice loss to basal sliding parameterisations: a case study of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica

Jowan M. Barnes and G. Hilmar Gudmundsson

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Úa2019b Hilmar Gudmundsson https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3706623

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Models must represent how glaciers slide along the bed, but there are many ways to do so. In this paper, several sliding laws are tested and found to affect different regions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in different ways and at different speeds. However, the variability in ice volume loss due to sliding-law choices is low compared to other factors, so limited empirical knowledge of sliding does not prevent us from making predictions of how an ice sheet will evolve.