Ellyn M. Enderlin

TL;DR: In this article, a reassessment of the temporal and spatial distribution of glacier change is presented, which supports recent model projections that surface mass balance, rather than ice dynamics, will dominate the ice sheet contribution to 21st century sea level rise.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the recent contribution of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) to sea level change using the mass budget method, which quantifies ice sheet mass balance as the difference between surface mass balance (SMB) and solid ice discharge across the grounding line (D).

TL;DR: The land ice freshwater flux displays a strong seasonal cycle with summer time values typically around five times larger than the annual mean, which will be important for understanding the impact of these fluxes on fjord circulation, stratification, and the biogeochemistry of, and nutrient delivery to, coastal waters.

TL;DR: In this article, the dynamics of tidewater outlet glaciers under external forcing are highly sensitive to width and bed topography, and the sensitivity tests indicate that the trunks of wider glaciers and those grounded over deeper basal depressions tend to be closer to flotation, so that less dynamically induced thinning results in rapid, unstable retreat following a perturbation.