Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.
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R.M. is supported by Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in ANtarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth system, OCEAN ICE, which is funded by the European Union, Horizon Europe Funding Programme for research and innovation under grant agreement no. 101060452, 10.3030/101060452. This is OCEAN:ICE contribution number 21. Illustration and publishing costs were supported by the Danish government as part of the National Centre for Climate Research (NCKF). We are grateful to illustrator J. Malumbres-Olarte for his creative work. N.H. is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge project PRECISE (NNF23OC0081251). C.R. and S.B.S. are supported by the Horizon 2020 project PROTECT, grant agreement 869304. The authors gratefully acknowledge the European Space Agency (ESA) and the climate change initiative programmes for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and for sea ice for the acquisition and processing of long-term, multi-decadal satellite datasets, which have enabled these scientific insights. Funding is provided to A.E.H. by ESA via the ESA Polar+ Ice Shelves project (ESA-IPL-POE-EF-cb-LE-2019-834) and the SO-ICE project (ESA AO/1-10461/20/I-NB), part of the ESA Polar Science Cluster. B.J.W. is supported by the Panorama Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Doctoral Training Partnership, under grant NE/S007458/1.
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Mottram, R., Hansen, N., Hogg, A.E. et al. The Greenlandification of Antarctica. Nat. Geosci. 18, 928–930 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01805-1
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