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| Title |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions
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| Published in |
Nature, July 2017
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| DOI | 10.1038/nature22995 |
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| Authors |
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, James A. Smith, David A. Hodell, Mervyn Greaves, Christopher R. Poole, Sev Kender, Mark Williams, Thorbjørn Joest Andersen, Patrycja E. Jernas, Henry Elderfield, Johann P. Klages, Stephen J. Roberts, Karsten Gohl, Robert D. Larter, Gerhard Kuhn |
| Abstract |
Glaciological and oceanographic observations coupled with numerical models show that warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) incursions onto the West Antarctic continental shelf cause melting of the undersides of floating ice shelves. Because these ice shelves buttress glaciers feeding into them, their ocean-induced thinning is driving Antarctic ice-sheet retreat today. Here we present a multi-proxy data based reconstruction of variability in CDW inflow to the Amundsen Sea sector, the most vulnerable part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, during the Holocene epoch (from 11.7 thousand years ago to the present). The chemical compositions of foraminifer shells and benthic foraminifer assemblages in marine sediments indicate that enhanced CDW upwelling, controlled by the latitudinal position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds, forced deglaciation of this sector from at least 10,400 years ago until 7,500 years ago-when an ice-shelf collapse may have caused rapid ice-sheet thinning further upstream-and since the 1940s. These results increase confidence in the predictive capability of current ice-sheet models. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 78 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15 | 19% |
| United States | 6 | 8% |
| Australia | 3 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| India | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 3% |
| Korea, Republic of | 2 | 3% |
| France | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Unknown | 37 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 52 | 67% |
| Scientists | 21 | 27% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 249 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 249 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 60 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 44 | 18% |
| Unknown | 44 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 142 | 57% |
| Environmental Science | 27 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 1% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 18 | 7% |
| Unknown | 46 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 218. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 February 2021.
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