High centennial-scale variability in an East Antarctic snow accumulation record spanning the last millennium

Pleistocene Ice Sheet Variability on Orbital to Millennial Scales from Northwest Greenland Stratigraphy

Past variability of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and the role it plays in global ice dynamics is poorly constrained due to a paucity of proximal climate records. With sea level rise patterns controlled by the source and relative timing of ice sheet melt, understanding the response of individual ice sheets to climate...

Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss

Antarctic mass loss has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise for most of the last few decades, mainly driven by West Antarctica1. During 2021–2023, however, a sharp increase in surface mass balance over Queen Mary Land and Wilkes Land in East Antarctica offset West Antarctic loss and slowed the rate of tot...

Is the contribution of glaciers and ice sheets to sea level rise slowing down?

We report on the ice mass loss of the Antarctic and Greenland Icesheets and of the world Glaciers and ice caps from 2002 to 2026 using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) missions.In Greenland, we detect a slowdown in ice mass loss since 2012 due to lower melt ru...

Regional variability in East Antarctic surface accumulation over the past 162 kyr inferred from englacial stratigraphy at the southern flank of Dome A

Variability of internal snow properties over Antarctic late summer sea ice on different spatial scales

Snow on Antarctic sea ice strongly affects thermodynamic processes, sea ice mass balance, and microwave remote sensing, yet its spatial variability and characteristic length scales remain poorly quantified. The aim of this study is to provide a spatially extensive, layer-resolved characterization of Antarctic late-summ...

A record of Holocene relative sea-level changes on Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Understanding past relative sea level (RSL) is important for constraining the timing and magnitude of changes in the cryosphere, providing critical benchmarks for models used to project future sea-level change, and supplying a datum for constraining past vertical motion. Past sea-level records from Antarctica can hel...