WAIS wasting in the Amundsen Sea Embayment since the Last Glacial Maximum

• Main Authors: Larter, R. D., Hillenbrand, C. D., Johnson, J. S., Smith, J. A., Deen, T. J., Graham, A. G. C., Gohl, Karsten, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice Sheet; Pine Island Bay
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17260/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.27108

The Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the most rapidly changing part of the Antarctic ice sheet and could have a significant impact on future sea level rise. However, sea level rise predictions in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for Policymake...