Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating
Disappearing faster around the edges The floating ice shelves around Antarctica, which buttress ice streams from the continent and slow their discharge into the sea, are thinning at faster rates. Paolo et al. present satellite data showing that ice shelves in many regions around the edge of the cont...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2015
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0940 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aaa0940 |