Terms frequently used by AbruptSLR in discussions about Antarctica ice shelf melt (and not explained elsewhere in the Glossary).
AABW - Antarctic bottom water
ABW - Arctic bottom water
ASE - Amundsen Sea Embayment - is roughly the size of the state of Texas and the area is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the others being the Ross Sea Embayment and the Weddell Sea Embayment (from
Wikipedia) - the ASE includes Pine Island Glacier (PIG) and Thwaites Glacier (at the base and to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula)
CDW - Circumpolar Deep Water
GIS - Greenland Ice Sheet [or course, this is in the Arctic!]
MICI - marine ice cliff instability
MISI - marine ice-sheet instability
PIIS - Pine Island Ice Shelf
SAM - Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (
Wikipedia)