@article{fdi:010060338,
  title = {{A}cceleration of snow melt in an {A}ntarctic {P}eninsula ice core during the twentieth century},
  author = {{A}bram, {N}. {J}. and {M}ulvaney, {R}. and {W}olff, {E}. and {T}riest, {J}. and {K}ipfstuhl, {S}. and {T}rusel, {L}. {D}. and {V}imeux, {F}ran{\c{c}}oise and {F}leet, {L}. and {A}rrowsmith, {C}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{O}ver the past 50 years, warming of the {A}ntarctic {P}eninsula has been accompanied by accelerating glacier mass loss and the retreat and collapse of ice shelves. {A} key driver of ice loss is summer melting; however, it is not usually possible to specifically reconstruct the summer conditions that are critical for determining ice melt in {A}ntarctic. {H}ere we reconstruct changes in ice-melt intensity and mean temperature on the northern {A}ntarctic {P}eninsula since {AD} 1000 based on the identification of visible melt layers in the {J}ames {R}oss {I}sland ice core and local mean annual temperature estimates from the deuterium content of the ice. {D}uring the past millennium, the coolest conditions and lowest melt occurred from about {AD} 1410 to 1460, when mean temperature was 1.6 degrees {C} lower than that of 1981-2000. {S}ince the late 1400s, there has been a nearly tenfold increase in melt intensity from 0.5 to 4.9%. {T}he warming has occurred in progressive phases since about {AD} 1460, but intensification of melt is nonlinear, and has largely occurred since the mid-twentieth century. {S}ummer melting is now at a level that is unprecedented over the past 1,000 years. {W}e conclude that ice on the {A}ntarctic {P}eninsula is now particularly susceptible to rapid increases in melting and loss in response to relatively small increases in mean temperature.},
  keywords = {{ANTARCTIQUE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{N}ature {G}eoscience},
  volume = {6},
  numero = {5},
  pages = {404--411},
  ISSN = {1752-0894},
  year = {2013},
  DOI = {10.1038/ngeo1787},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060338},
}