with the rate growing over at least the past two decades1–4. These observations intensify concerns about the ice sheet’s stability that were first raised more than four decades ago5. Although early atten-tion focused on the ice stream drainages feeding the large Ross and Filchner–Ronne ice shelves (...

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Main Authors: Ian Joughin, Richard B. Alley
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