Satellite radar interferometry reveals the dramatic retreat of Berry Glacier in West Antarctica. Broad intrusions of warm subsurface water, funneled by seafloor channels along retrograde bed slopes, have driven intense basal melting of the ice, which triggered faster ice flow and ice thinning. The cumulative glacier mass loss of 131 Gt since 1996 is one of the largest in Antarctica.
- Hanning Chen
- Eric Rignot
- Luigi Dini
