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Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B.

“…We present a reference, comprehensive, high-resolution, digital mosaic of ice motion in Antarctica assembled from multiple satellite interferometric…”
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Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013 by Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Scheuchl, B.

“…We combine measurements of ice velocity from Landsat feature tracking and satellite radar interferometry, and ice thickness from existing compilations to…”
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Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica by Rignot, E., Jacobs, S., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B.

“…We compare the volume flux divergence of Antarctic ice shelves in 2007 and 2008 with 1979 to 2010 surface accumulation and 2003 to 2008 thinning to determine…”
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Ice flow in Greenland for the International Polar Year 2008-2009 by Rignot, E., Mouginot, J.

“…A digital representation of ice surface velocity is essential for a variety of glaciological, geologic and geophysical analyses and modeling. Here, we present…”
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Continent‐Wide, Interferometric SAR Phase, Mapping of Antarctic Ice Velocity by Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Scheuchl, B.

“…Surface ice velocity is a fundamental characteristic of glaciers and ice sheets that quantifies the transport of ice. Changes in ice dynamics have a major…”
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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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Antarctic grounding line mapping from differential satellite radar interferometry by Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B.

“…The delineation of an ice sheet grounding line, i.e., the transition boundary where ice detaches from the bed and becomes afloat in the ocean, is critical to…”
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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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Ice motion of the Patagonian Icefields of South America: 1984-2014 by Mouginot, J., Rignot, E.

“…We present the first comprehensive high‐resolution mosaic of ice velocity of the Northern (NPI) and Southern Patagonian Icefields (SPI), from multiple…”
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Modeling Ice Melt Rates From Seawater Intrusions in the Grounding Zone of Petermann Gletscher, Greenland by Gadi, R., Rignot, E., Menemenlis, D.

“…Satellite radar interferometry data reveals that the grounding line of Petermann Glacier, Greenland migrates by several kilometers during the tidal cycle,…”
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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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Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise by Rignot, E., Velicogna, I., van den Broeke, M. R., Monaghan, A., Lenaerts, J. T. M.

“…Ice sheet mass balance estimates have improved substantially in recent years using a variety of techniques, over different time periods, and at various levels…”
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Physical processes controlling the rifting of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, prior to the calving of iceberg A68 by Larour, E., Rignot, E., Poinelli, M., Scheuchl, B.

“…The sudden propagation of a major preexisting rift (full-thickness crack) in late 2016 on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica led to the calving of tabular…”
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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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Channelized bottom melting and stability of floating ice shelves by Rignot, E., Steffen, K.

“…The floating ice shelf in front of Petermann Glacier, in northwest Greenland, experiences massive bottom melting that removes 80% of its ice before calving…”
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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 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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Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet from 1958 to 2007 by Rignot, E., Box, J. E., Burgess, E., Hanna, E.

“…We combine estimates of the surface mass balance, SMB, of the Greenland ice sheet for years 1958 to 2007 with measurements of the temporal variability in ice…”
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