Search Results - "Morlighem, M."

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011 by Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Morlighem, M., Seroussi, H., Scheuchl, B.

“…We measure the grounding line retreat of glaciers draining the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica using Earth Remote Sensing (ERS‐1/2) satellite radar…”
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Continental scale, high order, high spatial resolution, ice sheet modeling using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) by Larour, E., Seroussi, H., Morlighem, M., Rignot, E.

“…Ice flow models used to project the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica usually rely on the Shallow Ice Approximation (SIA) and the…”
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Continued retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, controlled by bed topography and ocean circulation by Seroussi, H., Nakayama, Y., Larour, E., Menemenlis, D., Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Khazendar, A.

“…Abstract The Amundsen Sea sector is experiencing the largest mass loss, glacier acceleration, and grounding line retreat in Antarctica. Enhanced intrusion of…”
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Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice sheet by Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Seroussi, H., Larour, E.

“…The bed topography beneath the Greenland ice sheet controls the flow of ice and its discharge into the ocean. A combination of sparse radar soundings of ice…”
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Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland by Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Scheuchl, B., Fenty, I., Khazendar, A., Morlighem, M., Buzzi, A., Paden, J.

“…After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5-meter sea-level rise equivalent, entered a…”
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Limited Impact of Thwaites Ice Shelf on Future Ice Loss From Antarctica by Gudmundsson, G. H., Barnes, J. M., Goldberg, D. N., Morlighem, M.

“…Thwaites Ice Shelf (TWIS), the floating extension of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, is changing rapidly and may completely disintegrate in the near future…”
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Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level feedbacks by Larour, E, Seroussi, H, Adhikari, S, Ivins, E, Caron, L, Morlighem, M, Schlegel, N

“…Geodetic investigations of crustal motions in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica and models of ice-sheet evolution in the past 10,000 years have…”
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Ocean‐Induced Melt Triggers Glacier Retreat in Northwest Greenland by Wood, M., Rignot, E., Fenty, I., Menemenlis, D., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., Mouginot, J., Seroussi, H.

“…In recent decades, tidewater glaciers in Northwest Greenland contributed significantly to sea level rise but exhibited a complex spatial pattern of retreat…”
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Modeling of Store Gletscher's calving dynamics, West Greenland, in response to ocean thermal forcing by Morlighem, M., Bondzio, J., Seroussi, H., Rignot, E., Larour, E., Humbert, A., Rebuffi, S.

“…Glacier‐front dynamics is an important control on Greenland's ice mass balance. Warmer ocean waters trigger ice‐front retreats of marine‐terminating glaciers,…”
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Modeling a Century of Change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's Mass Loss From 1933 to 2021 by Lippert, E. Y. H., Morlighem, M., Cheng, G., Khan, S. A.

“…Kangerlussuaq Glacier (KG) is a major contributor to central‐eastern Greenland mass loss, but existing estimates of its mass balance over the last century are…”
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Substantial export of suspended sediment to the global oceans from glacial erosion in Greenland by Overeem, I., Hudson, B. D., Syvitski, J. P. M., Mikkelsen, A. B., Hasholt, B., van den Broeke, M. R., Noël, B. P. Y., Morlighem, M.

“…Limited measurements along Greenland’s remote coastline hamper quantification of the sediment and associated nutrients draining the Greenland ice sheet,…”
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Modeling the Response of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and Zachariae Isstrøm Glaciers, Greenland, to Ocean Forcing Over the Next Century by Choi, Y., Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M.

“…Recent studies have shown that the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet region has been undergoing significant acceleration and dynamic thinning since 2010, and these…”
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Velocity of Greenland's Helheim Glacier Controlled Both by Terminus Effects and Subglacial Hydrology With Distinct Realms of Influence by Sommers, A. N., Meyer, C. R., Poinar, K., Mejia, J., Morlighem, M., Rajaram, H., Warburton, K. L. P., Chu, W.

“…Two outstanding questions for the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet are (a) how enhanced meltwater draining beneath the ice will impact the behavior of large…”
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Grounding line retreat of Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers, West Antarctica, measured with Sentinel‐1a radar interferometry data by Scheuchl, B., Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Morlighem, M., Khazendar, A.

“…We employ Sentinel‐1a C band satellite radar interferometry data in Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans mode to map the grounding line and ice velocity…”
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BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation by Morlighem, M., Williams, C. N., Rignot, E., An, L., Arndt, J. E., Bamber, J. L., Catania, G., Chauché, N., Dowdeswell, J. A., Dorschel, B., Fenty, I., Hogan, K., Howat, I., Hubbard, A., Jakobsson, M., Jordan, T. M., Kjeldsen, K. K., Millan, R., Mayer, L., Mouginot, J., Noël, B. P. Y., O'Cofaigh, C., Palmer, S., Rysgaard, S., Seroussi, H., Siegert, M. J., Slabon, P., Straneo, F., van den Broeke, M. R., Weinrebe, W., Wood, M., Zinglersen, K. B.

“…Greenland's bed topography is a primary control on ice flow, grounding line migration, calving dynamics, and subglacial drainage. Moreover, fjord bathymetry…”
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Spatial patterns of basal drag inferred using control methods from a full-Stokes and simpler models for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica by Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Seroussi, H., Larour, E., Ben Dhia, H., Aubry, D.

“…Basal drag is a fundamental control on ice stream dynamics that remains poorly understood or constrained by observations. Here, we apply control methods on ice…”
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Modeling of ocean‐induced ice melt rates of five west Greenland glaciers over the past two decades by Rignot, E., Xu, Y., Menemenlis, D., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B., Li, X., Morlighem, M., Seroussi, H., den Broeke, M. van, Fenty, I., Cai, C., An, L., Fleurian, B. de

“…High‐resolution, three‐dimensional simulations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model ocean model are used to calculate the…”
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A mass conservation approach for mapping glacier ice thickness by Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., Seroussi, H., Larour, E., Ben Dhia, H., Aubry, D.

“…The traditional method for interpolating ice thickness data from airborne radar sounding surveys onto regular grids is to employ geostatistical techniques such…”
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Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data by Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Bjørk, A. A., Morlighem, M.

“…We employ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge high‐resolution airborne gravity from 2016, NASA's Ocean Melting Greenland…”
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Geometric Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat in Central Western Greenland by Catania, G. A., Stearns, L. A., Sutherland, D. A., Fried, M. J., Bartholomaus, T. C., Morlighem, M., Shroyer, E., Nash, J.

“…Glacier terminus changes are one of the hallmarks of worldwide glacier change, and thus, there is significant focus on the controls and limits to retreat in…”
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