Data associated with "Ice-Shelf Retreat Drives Recent Pine Island Glacier Speedup” and "Ocean-Induced Melt Volume Directly Paces Ice Loss from Pine Island Glacier "

Abstract

Speedup of Pine Island Glacier over the last several decades has made it Antarctica’s largest contributor to sea-level rise. The past speedup is largely due to grounding-line retreat in response to ocean-induced thinning that reduced ice-shelf buttressing. These data are the model inputs and other observations associated with two papers that use an ice-flow model to investigate recent speedup of Pine Island Glacier, along with how continued melting may affect the glacier over the next 200 year.