ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Interglacial Collapse of Ice Sheets revealed by Subglacial Drilling of Bedrock
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) stores a substantial volume of freshwater on land. It is thought to be inherently unstable and so projections of future sea level rise require robust numerical ice sheet models, fully calibrated against geological data. The WAIS is widely believed to have collapsed in past warm interglacial periods, raising sea level by up to 3.3m, but perhaps surprisingly we do not yet have direct evidence of collapse from Antarctica that can be securely dated. Instead global sea level data have been used to infer that some combination of WAIS, Greenland and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed in one or more past interglacials, but with substantial uncertainty as to…
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