Book, C., M. J. Hoffman, S. B. Kachuck, T. R. Hillebrand, S. F. Price, M. Perego, and J. N. Bassis. 2022. Stabilizing effect of bedrock uplift on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, at centennial timescales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Volume 597, 1 November 2022, 117798.
New high resolution images of the seafloor in West Antarctica show past retreat of Thwaites Glacier. They reveal that at times in its past, retreat of the massive Thwaites Glacier was even quicker than it is today, heightening concerns for its future. The results were published Monday 5 September in the journal Nature Geoscience.
With the covid pandemic, the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration program has extended through 2026. Below is the plan for the duration of the research. Download the image using the link below.
Zoet, L. K., J. E. Rawling III, J. B. Woodard, N. Barrette, and D. M. Mickelson. 2021. Factors that contribute to the elongation of drumlins beneath the Green Bay Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46:13 2540-2550.
Alley, R. B., N. Holschuh, D. R. MacAyeal, B. R. Parizek, L. Zoet, K. Riverman, et al. 2021. Bedforms of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Character and origin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126, e2021JF006339.
Larter, R. D. 2022. Basal Melting, Roughness and Structural Integrity of Ice Shelves. Geophysical Research Letters, 49:4 e2021GL097421.
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Benn, D. I., A. Luckman, J. A. Åström, A. J. Crawford, S. L. Cornford, S. L. Bevan, T. Zwinger, R. Gladstone, K. Alley, E. Pettit, and J. Bassis. 2022. Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf. The Cryosphere, 16, 2545–2564.
Maclennan, M. L., J. T. M. Lenaerts, C. A. Shields, A. O. Hoffman, N. Wever, M. Thompson-Munson, A. C. Winters, E. C. Pettit, T. A. Scambos, and J. D. Wille. 2022. Climatology and Surface Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers on West Antarctica. The Cryosphere Discuss [preprint], in review.
