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10 Be dating reveals early-middle Holocene age of the Drygalski Moraines in central West Greenland

scholarly article by Sandra L. Cronauer et al published September 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

A JavaScript API for the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) 4.11: towards an online interactive model for the cryosphere community

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A constitutive framework for predicting weakening and reduced buttressing of ice shelves based on observations of the progressive deterioration of the remnant Larsen B Ice Shelf

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A damage mechanics assessment of the Larsen B ice shelf prior to collapse: Toward a physically-based calving law

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A global high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry and ocean bathymetry

A global, high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and ocean bathymetry

article by Janin Schaffer et al published 26 October 2016 in Earth system science data

A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

A mass conservation approach for mapping glacier ice thickness

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A modeling study of the effect of runoff variability on the effective pressure beneath Russell Glacier, West Greenland

scholarly article by Basile de Fleurian et al published October 2016 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

A new bed elevation model for the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

scientific article published in 2018

A new sub-grid surface mass balance and flux model for continental-scale ice sheet modelling: testing and last glacial cycle

scientific article published in 2015

A statistical fracture model for Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers

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A statistical fracture model for Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers

A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 23 July 2016

An Empirical Approach for Estimating Stress-Coupling Lengths for Marine-Terminating Glaciers

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An approach to computing discrete adjoints for MPI-parallelized models applied to Ice Sheet System Model 4.11

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Atmosphere-driven ice sheet mass loss paced by topography: Insights from modelling the south-western Scandinavian Ice Sheet

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Basal friction of Fleming Glacier, Antarctica – Part 1: Sensitivity of inversion to temperature and bedrock uncertainty

scientific article published in 2018

Basal friction of Fleming Glacier, Antarctica – Part 2: Evolution from 2008 to 2015

scientific article published in 2018

Basal resistance for three of the largest Greenland outlet glaciers

scholarly article by Daniel R. Shapero et al published January 2016 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Bathymetry of Southeast Greenland From Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Data

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Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea Embayment sector of West Antarctica from Operation IceBridge gravity and other data

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Bed elevation of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland, from high-resolution airborne gravity and other data

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Bed topography of Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica

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BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation.

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Brief communication: PICOP, a new ocean melt parameterization under ice shelves combining PICO and a plume model

Brief communication: PICOP, a new ocean melt parameterization under ice shelves combining PICO and a plume model

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Centennial response of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Characteristic Depths, Fluxes, and Timescales for Greenland's Tidewater Glacier Fjords From Subglacial Discharge‐Driven Upwelling During Summer

scientific article published in 2022

Comparison of four calving laws to model Greenland outlet glaciers

scholarly article by Youngmin Choi et al published 23 July 2018 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Comparison of four calving laws to model Greenland outlet glaciers

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Constraining an Ocean Model Under Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Using A Gravity‐Derived Bathymetry

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Continental scale, high order, high spatial resolution, ice sheet modeling using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

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Continued retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, controlled by bed topography and ocean circulation

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Control of Ocean Temperature on Jakobshavn Isbrae's Present and Future Mass Loss

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Coupling ice flow models of varying orders of complexity with the Tiling method

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Decadal-scale sensitivity of Northeast Greenland ice flow to errors in surface mass balance using ISSM

scholarly article by N-J. Schlegel et al published 20 May 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice sheet

scholarly article by Mathieu Morlighem et al published 18 May 2014 in Nature Geoscience

Dependence of century-scale projections of the Greenland ice sheet on its thermal regime

scholarly article by Hélène Seroussi et al published 2013 in Journal of Glaciology

Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison

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Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison

scholarly article by Heiko Goelzer et al published 14 July 2017 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Drivers of Change of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Between 1995 and 2015

scientific article published in 2021

Drygalski Ice Tongue stability influenced by rift formation and ice morphology

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Dynamics of Active Subglacial Lakes in Recovery Ice Stream

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Elastic deformation plays a non-negligible role in Greenland’s outlet glacier flow

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

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Exploration of Antarctic Ice Sheet 100-year contribution to sea level rise and associated model uncertainties using the ISSM framework

Exploration of Antarctic Ice Sheet 100-year contribution to sea level rise and associated model uncertainties using the ISSM framework

scientific article published in 2018

Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Fluctuations of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier driven by changes in atmospheric forcing: observations and modelling of Kangiata Nunaata Sermia, 1859–present

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Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Full-Stokes modeling of grounding line dynamics, ice melt and iceberg calving for Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

Future Antarctic bed topography and its implications for ice sheet dynamics

scholarly article by Surendra Adhikari et al published 30 June 2014 in Solid Earth

Future Projections of Petermann Glacier Under Ocean Warming Depend Strongly on Friction Law

scientific article published in 2021

Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

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Geometric Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat in Central Western Greenland

scholarly article by G. A. Catania et al published 30 August 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Greenland's glacier tidal response and ice sheet motion  

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Grounding Line Retreat of Denman Glacier, East Antarctica, Measured With COSMO‐SkyMed Radar Interferometry Data

article by V. Brancato et al published 8 April 2020 in Geophysical Research Letters

Grounding line retreat of Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers, West Antarctica, measured with Sentinel-1a radar interferometry data

scholarly article by Mathieu Morlighem published in 2016

Grounding line retreat of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, 1996 to 2013

scholarly article by Xin Li published in 2015

Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

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Hard rock landforms generate 130 km ice shelf channels through water focusing in basal corrugations

scientific article published in Nature Communications

High-resolution bed topography mapping of Russell Glacier, Greenland, inferred from Operation IceBridge data

scholarly article by Mathieu Morlighem et al published 2013 in Journal of Glaciology

High-resolution ice-thickness mapping in South Greenland

scholarly article by Mathieu Morlighem et al published 2014 in Annals of Glaciology

Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Holocene history of the Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenland

scholarly article by A.A. Bjørk et al published August 2018 in Quaternary Science Reviews

How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment

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Hydrostatic grounding line parameterization in ice sheet models

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Hydrostatic grounding line parameterization in ice sheet models

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ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century

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Ice discharge uncertainties in Northeast Greenland from boundary conditions and climate forcing of an ice flow model

scholarly article by N.-J. Schlegel et al published January 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Ice flow sensitivity to geothermal heat flux of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

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Ice flux divergence anomalies on 79north Glacier, Greenland

scholarly article by Hélène Seroussi et al published 7 May 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters

Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers

scientific article published in 2022

Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

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Iceberg calving of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Full-Stokes modeling combined with linear elastic fracture mechanics

Iceberg calving of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: full-Stokes modeling combined with linear elastic fracture mechanics

scientific article published in 2017

Impact of Iceberg Calving on the Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica Over the Next Century With Different Calving Laws and Ocean Thermal Forcing

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Implementation and Performance of Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM v4.14)

Implementation and performance of adaptive mesh refinement in the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM v4.14)

scientific article published in 2019

Implementation of higher-order vertical finite elements in ISSM v4.13 for improved ice sheet flow modeling over paleoclimate timescales

scientific article published in 2018

Implementation of higher-order vertical finite elements in ISSM v4.13. for improved ice sheet flow modeling over paleoclimate timescales

Implementing an empirical scalar constitutive relation for ice with flow-induced polycrystalline anisotropy in large-scale ice sheet models

scientific article published in 2018

Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model

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Improving Bed Topography Mapping of Greenland Glaciers Using NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Data

scholarly article published 1 December 2016

Inferred basal friction and surface mass balance of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream using data assimilation of ICESat (Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite) surface altimetry and ISSM (Ice Sheet System Model)

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Inferring time-dependent calving dynamics at Helheim Glacier

scientific article published in 2022

Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry

scholarly article by Denis Felikson et al published 17 April 2017 in Nature Geoscience

Insights into spatial sensitivities of ice mass response to environmental change from the SeaRISE ice sheet modeling project I: Antarctica

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Insights into spatial sensitivities of ice mass response to environmental change from the SeaRISE ice sheet modeling project II: Greenland

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Inversion of basal friction in Antarctica using exact and incomplete adjoints of a higher-order model

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Linking glacially modified waters to catchment-scale subglacial discharge using autonomous underwater vehicle observations

scientific article published in 2016

Modeling of Store Gletscher's calving dynamics, West Greenland, in response to ocean thermal forcing

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Modeling of ocean-induced ice melt rates of five west Greenland glaciers over the past two decades

scholarly article by Eric Rignot et al published 24 June 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters

Modeling the Response of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and Zachariae Isstrøm Glaciers, Greenland, to Ocean Forcing Over the Next Century

scholarly article by Y. Choi et al published 11 November 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Modeling the response of Northwest Greenland to enhanced ocean thermal forcing and subglacial discharge

Modeling the response of northwest Greenland to enhanced ocean thermal forcing and subglacial discharge

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Modelling calving front dynamics using a level-set method: application to Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland

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Near-margin ice thickness and subglacial water routing, Leverett Glacier, Greenland

scholarly article by Neil Ross et al published January 2018 in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland

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Ocean-Induced Melt Triggers Glacier Retreat in Northwest Greenland

scholarly article by Michael Wood et al published 24 August 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

On the Short-term Grounding Zone Dynamics of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, Observed With COSMO-SkyMed Interferometric Data

article by Pietro Milillo et al published 21 October 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Optimal numerical solvers for transient simulations of ice flow using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM versions 4.2.5 and 4.11)

scientific article published in 2017

Optimal numerical solvers for transient simulations of ice flow using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

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Plastic bed beneath Hofsjökull Ice Cap, central Iceland, and the sensitivity of ice flow to surface meltwater flux

scholarly article by BRENT MINCHEW et al published February 2016 in Journal of Glaciology

Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

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Radar attenuation and temperature within the Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Joseph A. MacGregor et al published June 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Representation of basal melting at the grounding line in ice flow models

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Representation of basal melting at the grounding line in ice flow models

Representation of sharp rifts and faults mechanics in modeling ice shelf flow dynamics: Application to Brunt/Stancomb-Wills Ice Shelf, Antarctica

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 119 no. 9, September 2014

Results of the third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (MISMIP+)

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Retreat of Humboldt Gletscher, North Greenland, Driven by Undercutting From a Warmer Ocean

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Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, over the next 100 years using various ice flow models, ice shelf melt scenarios and basal friction laws

Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, over the next 100 years using various ice flow models, ice shelf melt scenarios and basal friction laws

scientific article published in 2018

SHAKTI: Subglacial Hydrology and Kinetic, Transient Interactions v1.0

scholarly article by Aleah Sommers et al published 24 July 2018 in Geoscientific Model Development

SHaKTI: Subglacial Hydrology and Kinetic Transient Interactions v1.0

scholarly article by Aleah Sommers et al published 27 March 2018 in Geoscientific model development discussions (GMDD)

Seasonal Tidewater Glacier Terminus Oscillations Bias Multi‐Decadal Projections of Ice Mass Change

scientific article published in 2022

Sensitivity Analysis of Pine Island Glacier ice flow using ISSM and DAKOTA

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Sensitivity of the dynamics of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, to climate forcing for the next 50 years

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Short- and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

Simulating ice thickness and velocity evolution of Upernavik Isstrøm 1849–2012 by forcing prescribed terminus positions in ISSM

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Simulating ice thickness and velocity evolution of Upernavik Isstrøm 1849–2012 by forcing prescribed terminus positions in ISSM

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Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings

scientific article published in 2022

Simulating the evolution of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in southern Norway since the mid-Holocene and its sensitivity to climate change

scholarly article by Henning Åkesson et al published 27 January 2017 in The Cryosphere

Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level feedbacks

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Source-to-source adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation of an ice sheet model written in C

scholarly article by L. Hascoët & Mathieu Morlighem published 8 November 2017 in Optimization Methods and Software

Spatial patterns of basal drag inferred using control methods from a full-Stokes and simpler models for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

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Steep Glacier Bed Knickpoints Mitigate Inland Thinning in Greenland

scientific article published in 2021

Subglacial lake drainage detected beneath the Greenland ice sheet.

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Substantial export of suspended sediment to the global oceans from glacial erosion in Greenland

scholarly article by I. Overeem et al published 16 October 2017 in Nature Geoscience

Supplementary material to "Modeling the response of Northwest Greenland to enhanced ocean thermal forcing and subglacial discharge"

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Supplementary material to "The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6"

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Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland ice sheet advance inland under warming climate

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Terminus-driven retreat of a major southwest Greenland tidewater glacier during the early 19th century: insights from glacier reconstructions and numerical modelling

scholarly article by James M. Lea et al published 2014 in Journal of Glaciology

Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Thank You to Our 2019 Peer Reviewers

scientific article published on 2 September 2020

The Holocene dynamics of Ryder Glacier and ice tongue in north Greenland

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The Impact of Variable Ocean Temperatures on Totten Glacier Stability and Discharge

scientific article published in 2021

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0.

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6

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The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6

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The impact of model resolution on the simulated Holocene retreat of the Southwestern Greenland Ice Sheet using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

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The impact of model resolution on the simulated Holocene retreat of the southwestern Greenland ice sheet using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

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The mechanisms behind Jakobshavn Isbrae's acceleration and mass loss: A 3-D thermomechanical model study

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The transferability of adjoint inversion products between different ice flow models

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The uncertain future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution

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Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Widespread Grounding Line Retreat of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, Over the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2021

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

scholarly article by Eric Rignot published in 2014

initMIP-Antarctica: An ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6

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initMIP-Antarctica: an ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6

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neXtSIM: a new Lagrangian sea ice model

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