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A 10Be chronology of lateglacial and Holocene mountain glaciation in the Scoresby Sund region, east Greenland: implications for seasonality during lateglacial time

scholarly article

A 1400-Year Oxygen Isotope History from the Ross Sea Area, Antarctica

scholarly article

A Simple Law for Ice-Shelf Calving

scientific article published in Science

A Viscoelastic Model of Ice Stream Flow with Application to Stick-Slip Motion

article

A closer look at the IPCC report

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

A continuum model (PSUMEL1) of ice mélange and its role during retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

scientific article published in 2018

A continuum model of ice mélange and its role during retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

A northern lead in the orbital band: north–south phasing of Ice-Age events

scholarly article by Richard Alley et al published January 2002 in Quaternary Science Reviews

A subglacial water-flow model for West Antarctica

scholarly article

A water-piracy hypothesis for the stagnation of Ice Stream C, Antarctica

scholarly article

Abrupt climate change

scientific article (publication date: 28 March 2003)

Abrupt climate change around 22ka on the Siple Coast of Antarctica

scholarly article by K TAYLOR et al published January 2004 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Abrupt climate change.

scientific article

Abrupt increase in Greenland snow accumulation at the end of the Younger Dryas event

scientific article published in Nature

Accelerated subglacial erosion in response to stick-slip motion

article

Access of surface meltwater to beds of sub-freezing glaciers: preliminary insights

scientific article

Advances in weather prediction

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Alley Receives 2007 Roger Revelle Medal

An integrated system for optical imaging of ice cores

Annual layers in polar firn detected by Borehole Optical Stratigraphy

scholarly article

Antarctic sea ice: a self-organizing map-based perspective

article by David B. Reusch et al published 2007 in Annals of Glaciology

Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

Application of Constitutive Friction Laws to Glacier Seismicity

scholarly article

Assessment of the importance of ice-shelf buttressing to ice-sheet flow

scholarly article

Basal conditions and ice dynamics inferred from radar-derived internal stratigraphy of the northeast Greenland ice stream

scientific article

Basal conditions at the grounding zone of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, from ice-penetrating radar

scholarly article

Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

scholarly article

Bathymetry and geological structures beneath the Ross Ice Shelf at the mouth of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, modeled from ground-based gravity measurements

scientific article

Bed-type variability and till (dis)continuity beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

scientific article

Brief communication Greenland's shrinking ice cover: "fast times" but not that fast

scholarly article

CLIMATE CHANGE. A heated mirror for future climate

scientific article

Calibration of the δ18O isotopic paleothermometer for central Greenland, using borehole temperatures

scientific article

Changes in Atmospheric Circulation and Ocean Ice Cover over the North Atlantic During the Last 41,000 Years.

scientific article published in March 1994

Changes in continental and sea-salt atmospheric loadings in central Greenland during the most recent deglaciation: model-based estimates

scientific article

Changes in the west antarctic ice sheet

scientific article published on November 1991

Characteristics of the sticky spot of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 122 no. 3, March 2017

Characterization of Regional‐Scale CO 2 Transport Uncertainties in an Ensemble with Flow‐Dependent Transport Errors

scholarly article

Characterization of a hoar-development episode using SSM/I brightness temperatures in the vicinity of the GISP2 site, Greenland

scholarly article

Climate change. Modeling ice-sheet flow

scientific article

Climate change. On thickening ice?

scientific article

Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times

scientific article

Comment on "Absence of Cooling in New Zealand and the Adjacent Ocean During the Younger Dryas Chronozone"

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Comment on “When Earth's freezer door is left ajar”

scientific article

Complex fabric development revealed by englacial seismic reflectivity: Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland

scholarly article

Conditions for the reversal of ice/air surface slope on ice streams and shelves: a model study

scientific article

Constraints on holocene ice-thickness changes in central Greenland from the GISP2 ice-core data

scholarly article

Continued deceleration of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

scholarly article by Huw Horgan published in 2005

Continued evolution of Jakobshavn Isbrae following its rapid speedup

scholarly article

Continuity comes first: recent progress in understanding subglacial deformation

scientific article published in 2000

Corrigendum to “Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 29 (2010) 1679–1715]

scholarly article published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Dating annual layers of a shallow Antarctic ice core with an optical scanner

scholarly article

Dating the Siple Dome (Antarctica) ice core by manual and computer interpretation of annual layering

scholarly article

Decoding ice sheet behavior using englacial layer slopes

scholarly article by Nicholas Holschuh et al published 3 June 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Decoding the dipstick: Thickness of Siple Dome, West Antarctica, at the Last Glacial Maximum

scholarly article

Deformation of till beneath ice stream B, West Antarctica

scientific article published in Nature

Deforming-bed origin for southern Laurentide till sheets?

scientific article published in 1991

Deglacial changes in ocean circulation from an extended radiocarbon calibration

scientific article published in Nature

Deglacial temperature history of West Antarctica

scientific article

Detection and monitoring of stratigraphic markers and temperature trends at the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 using passive-microwave remote-sensing data

scientific article published in 1997

Development, principles, and applications of automated ice fabric analyzers

scientific article

Differentiating bubble-free layers from melt layers in ice cores using noble gases

scholarly article

Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream

scientific article published in Science

Dominant influence of atmospheric circulation on snow accumulation in Greenland over the past 18,000 years

scientific article published in Nature

Earth rotation changes since −500 CE driven by ice mass variations

scholarly article by Carling Hay et al published August 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Effect of Stratigraphy on Radar-Altimetry Data Collected Over Ice Sheets

scholarly article

Effect of sedimentation on ice-sheet grounding-line stability

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Ekman transport and upwelling during Younger Dryas estimated from wind stress from GENESIS Climate model experiments with variable North Atlantic heat convergence

scholarly article

Electrical conductivity measurements from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenlandice cores

scientific article published in Nature

Electrical measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 Core

scholarly article by Kendrick C. Taylor et al published 30 November 1997 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Englacial seismic reflectivity: imaging crystal-orientation fabric in West Antarctica

scholarly article

Enhanced firn densification in high-accumulation shear margins of the NE Greenland Ice Stream

scholarly article by K. L. Riverman et al published 20 December 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Enigmatic boulder trains, supraglacial rock avalanches, and the origin of “Darwin's boulders,” Tierra del Fuego

scholarly article

Estuaries beneath ice sheets

scholarly article

Evaluation of ice-stream model sensitivities for parameter estimation

scholarly article

Extensive storage of basal meltwater in the onset region of a major West Antarctic ice stream

scholarly article

Fabric in Ice Sheets: Development and Prediction

scientific article

Fabrics in polar ice sheets: development and prediction

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Five millennia of surface temperatures and ice core bubble characteristics from the WAIS Divide deep core, West Antarctica

scientific article

Flow properties of the ice from the Greenland Ice Core Project ice core: The reason for folds?

scholarly article by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen et al published 30 November 1997 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Friction and slip measured at the bed of an Antarctic ice stream

GHOSTly flute music: drumlins, moats and the bed of Thwaites Glacier

scientific article published in 2022

Geochemistry. "C"ing Arctic climate with black ice.

scientific article published on 9 August 2007

Geological record of ice shelf break-up and grounding line retreat, Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

article

Glacial erosion: status and outlook

scholarly article

Glacial hydraulic tremor on Rhonegletscher, Switzerland

scientific article published on 17 August 2022

Glacier velocity variability due to rain-induced sliding and cavity formation

scholarly article

Glaciohydraulic supercooling in former ice sheets?

scientific article published in April 2006

Global climate change.

scientific article

Grain-scale processes, folding, and stratigraphic disturbance in the GISP2 ice core

scientific article published in 1997

Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2016)

Grounding zone subglacial properties from calibrated active source seismic methods

scholarly article

Grounding zone subglacial properties from calibrated active-source seismic methods

scientific article

History of sea ice in the Arctic

scholarly article

History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

scholarly article

Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago

scholarly article by Richard Alley et al published 1997 in Geology

How high will the seas rise?

scientific article published in December 2016

How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century

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Ice Stream C, Antarctica, sticky spots detected by microearthquake monitoring

scientific article

Ice core records of atmospheric N2O covering the last 106,000 years

scientific article published in August 2003

Ice sheet grounding zone stabilization due to till compaction

scholarly article

Ice sheet mass balance and sea level

Ice stream D flow speed is strongly modulated by the tide beneath the Ross Ice Shelf

scholarly article

Ice thickness and isostatic imbalances in the Ross Embayment, West Antarctica: model results

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Ice-Core Analysis at Site A, Greenland: Preliminary Results

scientific article

Ice-Core Analysis on the Siple Coast of West Antarctica

scientific article

Ice-cliff failure via retrogressive slumping

scholarly article

Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes

scientific article

Ice-core evidence of late-Holocene reduction in North Atlantic Ocean heat transport

scholarly article

Ice-core insights into the flow and shut-down of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica

scholarly article

Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland

scholarly article

Ice-rafted debris associated with binge/purge oscillations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Ice-sheet and sea-level changes

scientific article

Ice-sheet mass balance: assessment, attribution and prognosis

scientific article

Ice-sheet response to oceanic forcing

scientific article

Icing the North Atlantic

scientific article published in Nature

Impact of climate change on New York City's coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Implications of abrupt climate change

scientific article

Improved moraine age interpretations through explicit matching of geomorphic process models to cosmogenic nuclide measurements from single landforms

scholarly article

In search of ice-stream sticky spots

scholarly article

Influence of ice-sheet geometry and supraglacial lakes on seasonal ice-flow variability

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Influence of supraglacial lakes and ice-sheet geometry on seasonal ice-flow variability

Initial effects of oceanic warming on a coupled ocean–ice shelf–ice stream system

scientific article published in 2009

Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS)

scholarly article by Paul Vallelonga et al published 22 July 2014 in The Cryosphere

Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS)

article by Paul Vallelonga et al published 24 January 2014 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Inland Ice-Sheet Thinning Near Dome C, East Antarctica, Caused by Post-Wisconsinan Sea-Level Rise (Abstract)

scientific article

Instruments and methods: a case study of ice core bubbles as strain indicators

Interactive comment on “Younger Dryas ice-margin retreat in Greenland, new evidence from Southwest Greenland” by Svend Funder et al.

Interannual Arctic sea ice variability and associated winter weather patterns: A regional perspective for 1979-2014

article

Interpretation of topography and bed properties beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica using seismic reflection methods

Is erosion by deforming subglacial sediments significant? (Toward till continuity)

scientific article

Large Arctic Temperature Change at the Wisconsin-Holocene Glacial Transition

scientific article (publication date: 20 October 1995)

Late-Holocene climate evolution at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica: bubble number-density estimates

scientific article

Linking postglacial landscapes to glacier dynamics using swath radar at Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

scientific article published on 3 January 2020

Lithospheric Structure of Greenland From Ambient Noise and Earthquake Surface Wave Tomography

scholarly article by Maeva Pourpoint et al published 22 September 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Locating Basal Microseismicity in Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica using QuakeMigrate, for Statistical Pattern Recognition

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Long-term climate changes from crystal growth

scientific article published in Nature

Magnetic anisotropy and debris-dependent rheological heterogeneity within stratified basal ice

scholarly article

Making sense of millennial-scale climate change

scientific article

Meltwater drainage and iceberg calving observed in high-spatiotemporal resolution at Helheim Glacier, Greenland

scientific article published in 2022

Microstructures of glacigenic sediment-flow deposits, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska

scientific article published in 1999

Microstructures of sediment flow deposits and subglacial sediments: a comparison

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Modeling the statistical distributions of cosmogenic exposure dates from moraines

scientific article

Multi-decadal basal slip enhancement at Saskatchewan Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains

scientific article published in 2022

Multiple Steady States in Ice-Water-Till Systems

scientific article

Observing and modeling the influence of layering on bubble trapping in polar firn

scientific article

Oceanic Forcing of Ice-Sheet Retreat: West Antarctica and More

scholarly article

Origin of the first global meltwater pulse following the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article

Outburst flooding and the initiation of ice-stream surges in response to climatic cooling: A hypothesis

article

Overestimate of committed warming.

scientific article published in July 2017

PALEOCLIMATE | Paleoclimate History of the Arctic

Palaeoclimatic insights into future climate challenges ⬇️

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

Paleoclimatic evidence for future ice-sheet instability and rapid sea-level rise

scientific article

Phase relationships between Antarctic and Greenland climate records

scientific article

Physical and structural properties of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice core: A review

scientific article published in 1997

Physical properties of the WAIS Divide ice core

scientific article

Physics. Ancient lessons for our future climate.

scientific article

Polar Firn Densification and Grain Growth

scholarly article

Possible Role for Tectonics in the Evolving Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 124 no. 1, January 2019

Poststagnation Retreat of Kamb Ice Stream's Grounding Zone

scholarly article

Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure

article

Preliminary results of tritium analyses in basal ice, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.: evidence for subglacial ice accretion

scholarly article

Preliminary study of laminated, silt-rich debris bands: Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A

scholarly article

Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context

scholarly article

Rapid response of modern day ice sheets to external forcing

article

Recent Warming in Central Greenland?

scientific article

Record drilling depth struck in Greenland

scientific article

Record of Volcanism Since 7000 B.C. from the GISP2 Greenland Ice Core and Implications for the Volcano-Climate System

scientific article

Reflection Seismic Interpretation of Topography and Acoustic Impedance beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

article published in 2020

Relating bed character and subglacial morphology using seismic data from Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

scholarly article

Reliability of ice-core science: historical insights

scholarly article

Remote Sensing of the Ross Ice Streams and Adjacent Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

scientific article

Repeating Icequakes at the Grounding Line of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Response

Rheology of glacier ice

scientific article published in Science

Rise in frequency of surface melting at Siple Dome through the Holocene: Evidence for increasing marine influence on the climate of West Antarctica

scientific article published in 2008

Sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment

scientific article published in 2023

Seasonal to decadal scale variations in the surface velocity of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland: Observation and model-based analysis

scholarly article

Seasonal variability in hydrologic-system response to intense rain events, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A

scholarly article

Sediment deposition at the modern grounding zone of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

scholarly article

Sediment, glaciohydraulic supercooling, and fast glacier flow

scholarly article

Sedimentary processes may cause fluctuations of tidewater glaciers

scholarly article

Seismic Evidence for a Thin Basal Layer at a Second Location on Ice Stream B, Antarctica

scholarly article

Seismic measurements reveal a saturated porous layer beneath an active Antarctic ice stream

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic-Reflection Profiling of a Widespread Till Beneath Ice Stream B, West Antarctica (Abstract)

scholarly article

Sensitivity of Pine Island Glacier to observed ocean forcing

article

Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world

article

Stabilizing feedbacks in glacier-bed erosion

scientific article

Stochastic Resonance in the North Atlantic: Further Insights

scientific article

Stochastic resonance in glacial climate

article published in 2002

Stochastic resonance in the North Atlantic

scientific article

Strain-rate enhancement at Dye 3, Greenland

scholarly article by Tiirostur Thorsteinsson et al published 1 June 1999 in Journal of Glaciology

Subglacial Lake Whillans — Ice-penetrating radar and GPS observations of a shallow active reservoir beneath a West Antarctic ice stream

scholarly article

Subglacial Lake Whillans — Seismic observations of a shallow active reservoir beneath a West Antarctic ice stream

article

Subglacial bathymetry and sediment layer distribution beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, modeled using aerogravity and autonomous underwater vehicle data

scholarly article

Subglacial sediments as a control on the onset and location of two Siple Coast ice streams, West Antarctica

scientific article published in 2006

Subglacial thermal balance permits ongoing grounding-line retreat along the Siple Coast of West Antarctica

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Surface formation, preservation, and history of low-porosity crusts at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica"

Surface elevation changes at the front of the Ross Ice Shelf: Implications for basal melting

scholarly article

Surface formation, preservation, and history of low-porosity crusts at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica

article published in 2018

Surface formation, preservation, and history of low-porosity crusts at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica

THE DEGLACIATION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: A Global Perspective

scientific article

THE ROGER REVELLE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE SERIES | Abrupt Climate Changes: Oceans, Ice, and Us

scientific article published in 2004

Temperature and accumulation at the Greenland Summit: Comparison of high-resolution isotope profiles and satellite passive microwave brightness temperature trends

scientific article

Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

scholarly article

Temperature variability at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, derived from ECMWF re-analyses, SSM/I and SMMR brightness temperatures and AWS records

scholarly article

Temperature‐Driven Bubble Migration as Proxy for Internal Bubble Pressures and Bubble Trapping Function in Ice Cores

scholarly article

Texture of Polar Firn for Remote Sensing

scientific article

The 8k event: cause and consequences of a major Holocene abrupt climate change

scholarly article

The Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 depth-age scale: Methods and results

scholarly article by D. A. Meese et al published 30 November 1997 in Journal of Geophysical Research

The PSU/UofC finite-element thermomechanical flowline model of ice-sheet evolution

The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

scientific article published in 2021

The Practice of Glaciology

academic chapter

The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

scholarly article

The SP19 Chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: Volcanic matching and annual-layer counting

scientific article

The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: volcanic matching and annual layer counting

scientific article

The Sedimentary Signature of Deforming Glacier Beds in the Ross Embayment, Antarctica

scholarly article

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future ⬇️

The Younger Dryas Termination and North Atlantic Deep Water Formation: Insights from climate model simulations and Greenland Ice Cores

scientific article

The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland

scholarly article by Richard Alley published January 2000 in Quaternary Science Reviews

The atmosphere during the younger dryas.

scholarly article

The effect of ice-sheet thickness change on the accumulation history inferred from GISP2 layer thicknesses

scholarly article

The effects of entrained debris on the basal sliding stability of a glacier

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 118 no. 2, May 2013

The impact of spatially-variable basal properties on outlet glacier flow

The key to the past?

scientific article published in Nature

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

The role of seasonality in abrupt climate change

scholarly article

The ‘flickering switch’ of late Pleistocene climate change

scientific article published in Nature

Tidally controlled stick-slip discharge of a West Antarctic ice.

scientific article

Till beneath ice stream B: 3. Till deformation: Evidence and implications

scientific article published in 1987

Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice

scientific article published in Nature

Timing of millennial-scale climate change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period

article by Edward J. Brook et al published July 2005 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Toward a New Generation of Ice Sheet Models

article

Toward using borehole temperatures to calibrate an isotopic paleothermometer in central Greenland

article

Troughs developed in ice-stream shear margins precondition ice shelves for ocean-driven breakup

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Twenty-first century sea-level rise could exceed IPCC projections for strong-warming futures

scientific article

Twin ice cores from greenland reveal history of climate change, more

scholarly article by Richard Alley et al published 28 May 1996 in Eos

Two-dimensional electrical stratigraphy of the Siple Dome (Antarctica) ice core

scholarly article

Unique and exceptionally long interglacial marine isotope stage 11: Window into Earth warm future climate

scientific article published in 2003

Validity of the temperature reconstruction from water isotopes in ice cores

scientific article published in 1997

Variations in melt-layer frequency in the GISP2 ice core: implications for Holocene summer temperatures in central Greenland

scholarly article

Visual-stratigraphic dating of the GISP2 ice core: Basis, reproducibility, and application

article by Richard Alley et al published 30 November 1997 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Wally Was Right: Predictive Ability of the North Atlantic “Conveyor Belt” Hypothesis for Abrupt Climate Change

scholarly article

Water-Pressure Dependence of the Velocity of Ice Stream B, Antarctica

scholarly article

Wet subglacial bedforms of the NE Greenland Ice Stream shear margins

scholarly article

Windblown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat

scientific article

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