Stability of ice-sheet grounding lines

Recent observations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet document rapid changes in the mass balance of its component glaciers. These observations raise the question of whether changing climatic conditions have triggered a dynamical instability in the ice sheet–ice shelf system. The dynamics of marine ice...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: F. Katz, M. Grae Worster
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
sea
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.643.7907
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~richardk/res/groundingLine/Katz_Worster_PRSA_inpress.pdf