Is a warming of the Antarctic continental shelf reversible?
Antarctic ice sheet mass loss and thus part of global sea-level rise is related to enhanced ice stream discharge to the fringing ice shelves. The transfer of ice into the ocean occurs via iceberg calving and ice shelf basal melting. For decades the balance of both terms was assumed to be in favor of...
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| Format: | Conference Object |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38748/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46039 |