Julien P. Nicolas

TL;DR: There is good agreement between different satellite methods—especially in Greenland and West Antarctica—and that combining satellite data sets leads to greater certainty, and the mass balance of Earth’s polar ice sheets is estimated by combining the results of existing independent techniques.

TL;DR: A complete temperature record for Byrd Station in central West Antarctica, spanning from 1958 to 2010, establishes West Antarctica as one of the fastest-warming regions globally as mentioned in this paper, but temperature trends in the region have remained uncertain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the temporal variability of the Antarctic surface mass balance, approximated as precipitation minus evaporation (P − E), and Southern Ocean precipitation in five global reanalyses during 1989-2009.

TL;DR: In this article, a reconstruction of Antarctic monthly mean near-surface temperatures spanning 1958-2012 is presented, which relies on a kriging technique aided by spatiotemporal temperature covariances derived from three global reanalyses.

TL;DR: A review of recent research on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) can be found in this paper, where the authors outline further scientific objectives for the area now identified as the most likely to undergo near-term significant change.