Articles | Volume 19, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4611-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4611-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Review article
| 
20 Oct 2025
Review article |
| 20 Oct 2025
| 20 Oct 2025
Review article: AntArchitecture – building an age–depth model from Antarctica's radiostratigraphy to explore ice-sheet evolution
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Julien A. Bodart
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Marie G. P. Cavitte
Department of Water and Climate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Ailsa Chung
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Rebecca J. Sanderson
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Johannes C. R. Sutter
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Olaf Eisen
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Nanna B. Karlsson
Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph A. MacGregor
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Neil Ross
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Duncan A. Young
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
David W. Ashmore
Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, UK
Andreas Born
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Winnie Chu
School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Xiangbin Cui
Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
Reinhard Drews
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Steven Franke
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Vikram Goel
National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Vasco da Gama, Goa, India
John W. Goodge
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, USA
A. Clara J. Henry
Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Antoine Hermant
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Benjamin H. Hills
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Nicholas Holschuh
Department of Geology, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Michelle R. Koutnik
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Gwendolyn J.-M. C. Leysinger Vieli
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Emma J. MacKie
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Elisa Mantelli
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Carlos Martín
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Felix S. L. Ng
School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Falk M. Oraschewski
Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Felipe Napoleoni
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Frédéric Parrenin
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Sergey V. Popov
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Gramberg All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia), St. Petersburg, Russia
Therese Rieckh
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Rebecca Schlegel
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Dustin M. Schroeder
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Martin J. Siegert
Tremough House, Penryn Campus, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
Xueyuan Tang
Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Thomas O. Teisberg
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Kate Winter
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Shuai Yan
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Harry Davis
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Christine F. Dow
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Tyler J. Fudge
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Tom A. Jordan
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Bernd Kulessa
School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Kenichi Matsuoka
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
Clara J. Nyqvist
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Maryam Rahnemoonfar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Matthew R. Siegfried
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Shivangini Singh
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Vjeran Višnjević
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Rodrigo Zamora
Institute of Science and Exploration, Valdivia, Chile
Alexandra Zuhr
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Model code and software
julbod/Calculate englacial layer continuity from BAS airborne radar data J. Bodart https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6858932
Short summary
The ice sheets covering Antarctica have built up over millenia through successive snowfall events which become buried and preserved as internal surfaces of equal age detectable with ice-penetrating radar. This paper describes an international initiative working together on these archival data to build a comprehensive 3-D picture of how old the ice is everywhere across Antarctica and how this is being used to reconstruct past and to predict future ice and climate behaviour.
The ice sheets covering Antarctica have built up over millenia through successive snowfall...
