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Current state and future perspectives on coupled ice-sheet – sea-level modelling (2017)
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de Boer, B., Stocchi, P., Whitehouse, P., & Van de Wal, R. (2017). Current state and future perspectives on coupled ice-sheet – sea-level modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews, 169, 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.013

The interaction between ice-sheet growth and retreat and sea-level change has been an established field of research for many years. However, recent advances in numerical modelling have shed new light on the precise interaction of marine ice sheets wi... Read More about Current state and future perspectives on coupled ice-sheet – sea-level modelling.

A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica (2017)
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Massam, A., Sneed, S., Lee, G., Tuckwell, R., Mulvaney, R., Mayewski, P., & Whitehouse, P. (2017). A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102017000025

A model to estimate the annual layer thickness of deposited snowfall at a deep ice core site, compacted by vertical strain with respect to depth, is assessed using ultra-high-resolution laboratory analytical techniques. A recently established techniq... Read More about A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica.

Controls on Last Glacial Maximum ice extent in the Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica (2017)
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Whitehouse, P. L., Bentley, M. J., Vieli, A., Jamieson, S. S., Hein, A. S., & Sugden, D. E. (2017). Controls on Last Glacial Maximum ice extent in the Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 122(1), 371-397. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jf004121

The Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is hypothesized to have made a significant contribution to sea-level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum. Using a numerical flowline model we investigate the controls on grounding line motion across t... Read More about Controls on Last Glacial Maximum ice extent in the Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica.

Deglacial history of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica from glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating (2017)
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Bentley, M., Hein, A., Sugden, D., Whitehouse, P., Shanks, R., Xu, S., & Freeman, S. (2017). Deglacial history of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica from glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 158, 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.09.028

The retreat history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is important for understanding rapid deglaciation, as well as to constrain numerical ice sheet models and ice loading models required for glacial isostatic adjustment modelling. There is particular debat... Read More about Deglacial history of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica from glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating.

Glacial isostatic adjustment associated with the Barents Sea ice sheet: a modelling inter-comparison (2016)
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Auriac, A., Whitehouse, P., Bentley, M., Patton, H., Lloyd, J., & Hubbard, A. (2016). Glacial isostatic adjustment associated with the Barents Sea ice sheet: a modelling inter-comparison. Quaternary Science Reviews, 147, 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.011

The 3D geometrical evolution of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet (BSIS), particularly during its late-glacial retreat phase, remains largely ambiguous due to the paucity of direct marine- and terrestrial-based evidence constraining its horizontal and vertic... Read More about Glacial isostatic adjustment associated with the Barents Sea ice sheet: a modelling inter-comparison.

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in response to changing Late Holocene behaviour of ice streams on the Siple Coast, West Antarctica (2016)
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Nield, G., Whitehouse, P., King, M., & Clarke, P. (2016). Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in response to changing Late Holocene behaviour of ice streams on the Siple Coast, West Antarctica. Geophysical Journal International, 205(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv532

The Siple Coast region of Antarctica contains a number of fast-flowing ice streams, which control the dynamics and mass balance of the region. These ice streams are known to undergo stagnation and reactivation cycles, which lead to ice thickness chan... Read More about Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in response to changing Late Holocene behaviour of ice streams on the Siple Coast, West Antarctica.

Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica (2016)
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Hodgson, D., Whitehouse, P., De Cort, G., Berg, S., Verleyen, E., Tavernier, I., …O'Brien, P. (2016). Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 139, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.12.020

Prydz Bay is one of the largest embayments on the East Antarctic coast and it is the discharge point for approximately 16 % of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geological constraints on the regional ice sheet history include evidence of past relative se... Read More about Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica.

An examination of spatial variability in the timing and magnitude of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the New Zealand archipelago (2015)
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Clement, A., Whitehouse, P., & Sloss, C. (2016). An examination of spatial variability in the timing and magnitude of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the New Zealand archipelago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 131(Part A), 73-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.025

Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) changes have been reconstructed for four regions within the New Zealand archipelago: the northern North Island (including Northland, Auckland, and the Coromandel Peninsula); the southwest coast of the North Island; t... Read More about An examination of spatial variability in the timing and magnitude of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the New Zealand archipelago.

Uplift rates from a new high-density GPS network in Palmer Land indicate significant late Holocene ice loss in the southwestern Weddell Sea (2015)
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Wolstencroft, M., King, M., Whitehouse, P., Bentley, M., Nield, G., King, E., …Gunter, B. (2015). Uplift rates from a new high-density GPS network in Palmer Land indicate significant late Holocene ice loss in the southwestern Weddell Sea. Geophysical Journal International, 203(1), 737-754. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv327

The measurement of ongoing ice-mass loss and associated melt water contribution to sea-level change from regions such as West Antarctica is dependent on a combination of remote sensing methods. A key method, the measurement of changes in Earth's grav... Read More about Uplift rates from a new high-density GPS network in Palmer Land indicate significant late Holocene ice loss in the southwestern Weddell Sea.

Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution (2015)
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Matsuoka, K., Hindmarsh, R., Moholdt, G., Bentley, M., Pritchard, H., Brown, J., …Whitehouse, P. (2015). Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 150, 724-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.004

Locally grounded features in ice shelves, called ice rises and rumples, play a key role buttressing discharge from the Antarctic Ice Sheet and regulating its contribution to sea level. Ice rises typically rise several hundreds of meters above the sur... Read More about Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution.

Incomplete separability of Antarctic plate rotation from glacial isostatic adjustment deformation within geodetic observations (2015)
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King, M., Whitehouse, P., & van der Wal, W. (2016). Incomplete separability of Antarctic plate rotation from glacial isostatic adjustment deformation within geodetic observations. Geophysical Journal International, 204(1), 324-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv461

Geodetic measurements of Antarctic solid Earth deformation include signals from plate rotation and glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). Through simulation, we investigate the degree to which these signals are separable within horizontal GPS site veloc... Read More about Incomplete separability of Antarctic plate rotation from glacial isostatic adjustment deformation within geodetic observations.

Effect of GIA models with 3D composite mantle viscosity on GRACE mass balance estimates for Antarctica (2015)
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van der Wal, W., Whitehouse, P. L., & Schrama, E. (2015). Effect of GIA models with 3D composite mantle viscosity on GRACE mass balance estimates for Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 414, 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.001

Seismic data indicate that there are large viscosity variations in the mantle beneath Antarctica. Consideration of such variations would affect predictions of models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), which are used to correct satellite measureme... Read More about Effect of GIA models with 3D composite mantle viscosity on GRACE mass balance estimates for Antarctica.

Low post-glacial rebound rates in the Weddell Sea due to Late Holocene ice- sheet readvance (2015)
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Bradley, S., Hindmarsh, R., Whitehouse, P., Bentley, M., & King, M. (2015). Low post-glacial rebound rates in the Weddell Sea due to Late Holocene ice- sheet readvance. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 413, 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.039

Many ice-sheet reconstructions assume monotonic Holocene retreat for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, but an increasing number of glaciological observations infer that some portions of the ice sheet may be readvancing, following retreat behind the prese... Read More about Low post-glacial rebound rates in the Weddell Sea due to Late Holocene ice- sheet readvance.

Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading (2014)
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Nield, G., Barletta, V., Bordoni, A., King, M., Whitehouse, P., Clarke, P., …Berthier, E. (2014). Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 397, 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.019

Since 1995 several ice shelves in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula have collapsed and triggered ice-mass unloading, invoking a solid Earth response that has been recorded at continuous GPS (cGPS) stations. A previous attempt to model the observation... Read More about Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading.

Revisiting GRACE Antarctic ice mass trends and accelerations considering autocorrelation (2014)
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Williams, S. D., Moore, P., King, M. A., & Whitehouse, P. L. (2014). Revisiting GRACE Antarctic ice mass trends and accelerations considering autocorrelation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 385, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.016

Previous GRACE-derived ice mass trends and accelerations have almost entirely been based on an assumption that the residuals to a regression model (including also semi-annual, annual and tidal aliasing terms) are not serially correlated. We consider... Read More about Revisiting GRACE Antarctic ice mass trends and accelerations considering autocorrelation.

Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change (2013)
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Hanna, E., Navarro, F., Pattyn, F., Domingues, C., Fettweis, X., Ivins, E., …Zwally, H. (2013). Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change. Nature, 498(7452), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12238

Since the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, new observations of ice-sheet mass balance and improved computer simulations of ice-sheet response to continuing climate change have been published. Whereas Greenland... Read More about Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change.

On the Up (2012)
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King, M., & Whitehouse, P. (2012). On the Up