Towards quantifying changes in the modelled spatio-temporal variability in the ocean heat forcing to the Greenland tidewater glaciers: A study based on global climate model simulations of pre-industrial, historical and RCP 8.5 scenarios

The Greenland Ice Sheet has a total volume of 2900000 km3. In recent decades, the ice-sheet has been losing mass rapidly and has nearly doubled its contribution to sea-level rise. One main contributing factor has been the recent widespread acceleration of the tidewater glaciers that terminate in deep and narrow glacial fjords. However, our...