[1] It has been suggested that rapid thinning of the West Antarctic ice sheet is due to increased melting under ice shelves caused by a gradual ocean warming (Shepherd et al., 2004). Payne et al. (2004) showed that such melting could lead to an acceleration of grounded ice flow. In this paper, we an...
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