Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current
The Antarctic ice sheet loses mass at its fringes bordering the Southern Ocean. At this boundary, warm circumpolar water can override the continental slope front, reaching the grounding line through submarine glacial troughs and causing high rates of melting at the deep ice-shelf bases. The interpla...
Published in: | Nature |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
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2012
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30379/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30379/1/NatureN4_txt.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11064 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39299 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39299.d001 |