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Antarctic tipping points

Publication 1 June, 2023

…tipping points. Melt from the Antarctic ice sheet, and from sea-ice loss, has slowed down parts of the Southern Ocean circulation by 30% since the 1990s (Gunn et al., 2023)….

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Ice cores and climate change

Publication 30 June, 2022

Introduction Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Most ice core records come from Antarctica and Greenland, and the longest ice cores extend…

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The Antarctic Peninsula’s retreating ice shelves

Publication 30 June, 2022

…across Antarctica in the coming centuries. What are ice shelves? Ice shelves are glacial ice; the floating extensions of a grounded ice sheet. Although a few small ice shelves exist…

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Sensitivity of Pliocene ice sheets to orbital forcing

Publication 15 August, 2011

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CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica

Publication 6 March, 2020

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Decadal Ocean Forcing and Antarctic Ice Sheet Response: Lessons from the Amundsen Sea

Publication 1 December, 2016

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Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Experimental design for three interrelated marine ice-sheet and ocean model intercomparison projects: MISMIP v. 3 (MISMIP+), ISOMIP v. 2 (ISOMIP+) and MISOMIP v. 1 (MISOMIP1)

Publication 1 July, 2016

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The Antarctic contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise predicted by the UK Earth System Model with an interactive ice sheet

Publication 7 October, 2022

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Challenges to understand the dynamic response of Greenland’s marine terminating glaciers to oceanic and atmospheric forcing

Publication 1 August, 2013

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Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models

Publication 23 July, 2020

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Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Comparing glacial‐geological evidence and model simulations of ice sheet change since the last glacial period in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica

Publication 11 June, 2021

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Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

Publication 15 September, 2014

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Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier to observed ocean forcing

Publication 28 October, 2016

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Future sea level change under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 and 6 scenarios from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

Publication 28 August, 2021

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea driven by decadal oceanic variability

Publication 1 October, 2018

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West Antarctic ice loss influenced by internal climate variability and anthropogenic forcing

Publication 12 August, 2019

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Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction

Publication 15 March, 2017

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Sensitivity of interglacial Greenland temperature and delta 18 O: ice core data, orbital and increased CO2 climate simulations.

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Long-term increase in Antarctic Ice Sheet vulnerability driven by bed topography evolution

Publication 28 October, 2020

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The Amundsen Sea and the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Glacier change along West Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land Sector and links to inter-decadal atmosphere–ocean variability

Publication 26 July, 2018

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Adaptation of an isopycnic coordinate ocean model for the study of circulation beneath ice shelves

Publication 1 January, 2001

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Anthropogenic and internal drivers of wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, during the 20th and 21st centuries

Publication 22 December, 2022

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The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) phase 4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka, version 1.0

Publication 22 August, 2019

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Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water

Publication 1 July, 2015

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Coupled ice shelf-ocean modeling and complex grounding line retreat from a seabed ridge

Publication 1 May, 2016

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A model of tidally dominated ocean processes near ice shelf grounding lines.

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Sensitivity of the Weddell Sea sector ice streams to sub-shelf melting and surface accumulation

Publication 24 November, 2014

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Archaeal intact polar lipids in polar waters: a comparison between the Amundsen and Scotia seas

Publication 11 June, 2021

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Simulated twentieth-century ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

Publication 16 March, 2022

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Latitudinal variance in the drivers and pacing of warmth during mid‐Pleistocene MIS 31 in the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean

Publication 15 August, 2022

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Warmer tropics during the mid-Pliocene? Evidence from alkenone paleothermometry and a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM

Publication 1 January, 2005

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Factors controlling the last interglacial climate as simulated by LOVECLIM1.3

Publication 27 June, 2014

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Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies

Publication 16 November, 2020

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A 2000-year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving activity, based on marine sediment cores

Publication 1 November, 2018

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Rapid deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula in the Early Holocene

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Strong sensitivity of Pine Island ice-shelf melting to climactic variability

Publication 10 January, 2014

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New magnetostratigraphic insights from Iceberg Alley on the rhythms of Antarctic climate during the Plio‐Pleistocene

Publication 9 February, 2021

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Variability of the Ross Gyre, Southern Ocean: drivers and responses revealed by satellite altimetry

Publication 1 June, 2018

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The sensitivity of West Antarctica to the submarine melting feedback

Publication 16 March, 2017

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Climate and surface mass balance of coastal West Antarctica resolved by regional climate modelling

Publication 1 July, 2018

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Widespread increase in dynamic imbalance in the Getz region of Antarctica from 1994 to 2018

Publication 23 February, 2021

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Recent advances on the dynamical representation and our understanding of the warmer-than-present last interglacial climate

Publication 1 June, 2017

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The Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition: an Antarctic perspective

Publication 1 October, 2021

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Harmonic analysis of climatological temperature over Antarctica: present day and greenhouse warming perspectives

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

Publication 25 June, 2018

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