PIG

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PIG is the commonly used acronym for Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest-changing glaciers, significant for its impact on global sea-level rise.

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PIG canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf glacier
affectedBy climate change
ocean-driven basal melting
warm Circumpolar Deep Water
comparedWith Thwaites Glacier
country Antarctica
drainsInto Amundsen Sea
emptiesInto Pine Island Bay
hasAcronym PIG
hasImportance indicator of West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability
key contributor to observed Antarctic mass loss
hasPhenomenon calving of large icebergs
ice-shelf rifting
hasProcess marine ice-sheet instability
hasProperty grounding line retreat over recent decades
high ice discharge rate
rapid thinning
hasResearchProgram ITGC (International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, related regional studies)
Operation IceBridge
UK-US joint field campaigns
hasUncertainty future rate of mass loss
isNeighborOf Thwaites Glacier
isOneOf fastest-changing glaciers in Antarctica
largest glaciers in Antarctica
locatedIn Amundsen Sea sector
linked to: Amundsen Sea

West Antarctica
monitoredBy airborne surveys
autonomous underwater vehicles
interferometric synthetic aperture radar
satellite altimetry
namedAfter Pine Island Bay
partOf Amundsen Sea Embayment glacier system
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
retreatsBy grounding line retreat
ice-shelf thinning
risk multi-meter sea-level rise over centuries if destabilized
potential long-term destabilization of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
significantFor contribution to global sea-level rise
rapid ice mass loss
studiedBy climate scientists
glaciologists
oceanographers
terminusType floating ice shelf

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Pine Island Glacier hasAcronym PIG
subject linked to: PIG