Snowfall measurements: Snowfall estimates from the RCMs matched observed snow height measurements on the Thwaites and Pine Island ice shelves more closely, whereas global reanalysis datasets like ...

Crevasses on Antarctic ice shelves change the material properties ... but more complicated than previously thought for the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue.

Thwaites and Crosson ice shelves (seen just below the peninsula) have thinned the most. The two ice shelves have lost five meters (16 feet) and three meters (10 feet) of ice per year, respectively ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change,  say the scientists behind the project.  The map, called Bedmap3, ...