Oceanic erosion of a floating Antarctic glacier in the Amundsen Sea
A survey of the southern Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas in early 1994 included the first deepoceanographic measurements along the calving front of Pine Island Glacier, which drains~2x10^5 km^2 of the marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The measurements reveal a cycloniccirculation in Pine Islan...
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1998
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1254/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.11843 |