Calibrated prediction of Pine Island Glacier retreat during the 21st and 22nd centuries with a coupled flowline model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-199

  Gladstone, Rupert M ^a   Lee, Victoria ^a   Rougier, Jonathan ^a   Payne, Antony J ^a   Hellmer, Hartmut ^c   Le Brocq, Anne ^b   Shepherd, Andrew ^d   Edwards, Tamsin L ^a   Gregory, Jonathan ^e,f   Cornford, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibrated prediction; Ice sheet modelling; Marine ice sheet instability; Pine Island Glacier; West Antarctic ice sheet

Indexed keywords

BOX MODELS; BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; CALIBRATED PREDICTION; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELLING; ICE SHEET MODELS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; SMALL SCALE;

FLOWLINES; FORECASTING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

GLACIER RETREAT; ICE SHEET; MODELING; PREDICTION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84861131423     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.022     Document Type: Article

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