Changes in Antarctic Ice Sheet Motion Derived From Satellite Radar Interferometry Between 1995 and 2022

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Ice motion and boundaries are critical information for ice sheet models that project ice evolution in a warming climate. We present four historical, continent-wide, maps of Antarctic-wide ice motion and boundaries for the time period 1995–2022. The results reveal no change in the interior region of East Antarctica, iceberg detachments at ice shelf fronts, and widespread glacier speedup that propagates 100 km's inland in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula. Speedup affects the entire drainage of the Amundsen Sea Embayment sector; the entire west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula down to GeorgeVI Ice Shelf; the east coast down to Larsen C Ice Shelf; Getz Ice Shelf, Hull and Land glaciers in West Antarctica; Matusevitch, Ninnis, Mertz and Denman glaciers, glaciers in Porpoise and Vincennes Bay; and Robert, Wilma and Rayner glaciers in Enderby Land, in East Antarctica. We attribute the observed glacier changes to increased melting by warmer ocean waters.

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Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B., & Jeong, S. (2022). Changes in Antarctic Ice Sheet Motion Derived From Satellite Radar Interferometry Between 1995 and 2022. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(23). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100141

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