THE ACCIMA PROJECT – COUPLED MODELING OF THE HIGH SOUTHERN LATITUDES

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Pacific; Payne; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.666.5050; http://polarmet.osu.edu/ACCIMA/ACCIMA_bromwich_etal_201306.pdf

Understanding the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet is critical for projecting global sea-level change. Also, Antarctica provides key climate records through deep ice cores, one of which is currently being extracted in West Antarctica. On decadal and shorter timescales, the Antarctic Ice Sheet...