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@article{Patterson:2022:10.5194/sd-30-101-2022,
author = {Patterson, MO and Levy, RH and Kulhanek, DK and van, de Flierdt T and Horgan, H and Dunbar, GB and Naish, TR and Ash, J and Pyne, A and Mandeno, D and Winberry, P and Harwood, DM and Florindo, F and Jimenez-Espejo, FJ and Laufer, A and Yoo, K-C and Seki, O and Stocchi, P and Klages, JP and Lee, JI and Colleoni, F and Suganuma, Y and Gasson, E and Ohneiser, C and Flores, J-A and Try, D and Kirkman, R and Koch, D},
doi = {10.5194/sd-30-101-2022},
journal = {Scientific Drilling},
pages = {101--112},
title = {Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice sheet to +2 degrees C (SWAIS 2C)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sd-30-101-2022},
volume = {30},
year = {2022}
}

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AB  - The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) presently holds enough ice to raise global sea level by 4.3 m if completely melted. The unknown response of the WAIS to future warming remains a significant challenge for numerical models in quantifying predictions of future sea level rise. Sea level rise is one of the clearest planet-wide signals of human-induced climate change. The Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Warming of 2 C (SWAIS 2C) Project aims to understand past and current drivers and thresholds of WAIS dynamics to improve projections of the rate and size of ice sheet changes under a range of elevated greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere as well as the associated average global temperature scenarios to and beyond the +2 C target of the Paris Climate Agreement.Despite efforts through previous land and ship-based drilling on and along the Antarctic margin, unequivocal evidence of major WAIS retreat or collapse and its causes has remained elusive. To evaluate and plan for the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities and engineering challenges that an International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) project along the Siple coast near the grounding zone of the WAIS could offer (Fig. 1), researchers, engineers, and logistics providers representing 10 countries held a virtual workshop in October 2020. This international partnership comprised of geologists, glaciologists, oceanographers, geophysicists, microbiologists, climate and ice sheet modelers, and engineers outlined specific research objectives and logistical challenges associated with the recovery of Neogene and Quaternary geological records from the West Antarctic interior adjacent to the Kamb Ice Stream and at Crary Ice Rise. New geophysical surveys at these locations have identified drilling targets in which new drilling technologies will allow for the recovery of up to 200 m of sediments beneath the ice sheet. Sub-ice-shelf records have so far proven difficult to
AU  - Patterson,MO
AU  - Levy,RH
AU  - Kulhanek,DK
AU  - van,de Flierdt T
AU  - Horgan,H
AU  - Dunbar,GB
AU  - Naish,TR
AU  - Ash,J
AU  - Pyne,A
AU  - Mandeno,D
AU  - Winberry,P
AU  - Harwood,DM
AU  - Florindo,F
AU  - Jimenez-Espejo,FJ
AU  - Laufer,A
AU  - Yoo,K-C
AU  - Seki,O
AU  - Stocchi,P
AU  - Klages,JP
AU  - Lee,JI
AU  - Colleoni,F
AU  - Suganuma,Y
AU  - Gasson,E
AU  - Ohneiser,C
AU  - Flores,J-A
AU  - Try,D
AU  - Kirkman,R
AU  - Koch,D
DO  - 10.5194/sd-30-101-2022
EP  - 112
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0734-5615
SP  - 101
TI  - Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice sheet to +2 degrees C (SWAIS 2C)
T2  - Scientific Drilling
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sd-30-101-2022
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UR  - https://sd.copernicus.org/articles/30/101/2022/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/99012
VL  - 30
ER  -

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