West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions. ...
Glaciological and oceanographic observations coupled with numerical models show that warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) incursions onto the West Antarctic continental shelf cause melting of the undersides of floating ice shelves. Because these ice shelves buttress glaciers feeding into them, their oc...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2017
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.11512 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266625 |